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Nightmares of Utopia
— My daughter is now twenty-four. She majored in philosophy and religion in college because she said she wanted to learn the fundamentals of past thinking. It was an ongoing conversation in our family...
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Sarcasm Is the Bane of Civilization
— Join the Parenting and Relational Intelligence FACEBOOK GROUP here. — Parents should ban sarcasm for themselves and their kids. It’s so easy to sling a fast one in the face of some jackass or tool...
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Men, Women, and Formal Rules
— To understand the structure of American culture, you can look at old Hollywood movies. It’s like an archaeological dig with a music track supplied. Starting at the beginning of the twentieth century...
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Chest-Pounding Heroes and Our Kids
— I grew up playing sports continually, before video games. It was baseball in the summer at the local park with a hodgepodge of kids: anyone of any age or gender we could round up. It was football in...
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The Seven Kinds of Love
— One of the best lectures I ever heard at university dealt with the theme of love in Italian Renaissance painting. The lecturer was a white-haired man who escaped the Nazis when he was very young,...
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Corruption Now
— Please vote. Vote however your conscience and intellect tell you to vote. Not voting is no answer to the systemic problems I outline in this article. Not voting simply weakens the power of our...
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Achievers and Talkers: A Tale of Two Opposing Worlds in Childhood
— I was in first grade when my parents and two older sisters moved me to Upstate New York from New York City. Being so young, it seemed to me that they all sat down and weighed and balanced all of...
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Amish Values and My Wife
— My wife, Judith, certainly isn’t Amish. She’s slightly more attached to a traditional mainline Protestant identity than I am; but my attachment is an ad hoc concoction of personal philosophy and...
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Disrespect, the Deluge of ‘Art’, and the World Wide Tangled Web
— Asking for and giving respect to our kids was easy for my wife and me. The problem was the world around us that never stopped selling disrespect. We had to come up with a plan. Being a stay at home...
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The Househusband With No Resume
— I became a househusband in my mid-forties. My wife, Judith, and I had been struggling to keep our Boston non-profit art conservation center alive, but after almost ten years, it died. Judith and I...
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25 Seasons in, Still Happily ‘Dancing with the Stars’
> Source: 30dB.com – DWTS-and-25 In previous iterations of the show, first-place and runner-up celebrities were professional athletes (former NFL running back Rashad Jennings and former MLB catcher...
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