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The Absolute Best Albums for Each Week of the Year According to Science

The Absolute Best Albums for Each Week of the Year According to Science

Music fans know that songs have a season. This is obviously true for Christmas music, Halloween music, and even Fourth of July music, but also for songs and albums that don’t have such clear seasonal affiliation.

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How to Rate a Book

How to Rate a Book

Any writer knows the story: You pour your life into what you hope ends up a good piece, you publish it, and then you hold

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Trump-Hating toward Totalitarianism

Trump-Hating toward Totalitarianism

In the climax of the classic Pirates of Silicon Valley, Steve Jobs is shown presenting his iconic 1984 Big Brother commercial before his adoring audience.

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Everything Is a Blue/Black White/Gold Dress and It’s Tearing Us Apart

Everything Is a Blue/Black White/Gold Dress and It’s Tearing Us Apart

Do you trust the election system? Chances are, if you’re a Democrat, you do, and, if you’re a Republican, you don’t. A new poll found

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The Myth of Divisiveness

The Myth of Divisiveness

As the final poll numbers came in over the weekend and news outlets began declaring Joe Biden victor of the 2020 presidential election, the response

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How to Avoid Civil War

How to Avoid Civil War

If there’s one thing everyone agrees upon in the lead up to the election, it’s that we all disagree. We disagree on pretty much every

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Logic in the Time of Corona

Logic in the Time of Corona

The first casualty in the Coronavirus Pandemic was reason. Even before the WHO Issued its first warnings, experts were jumping to conclusions and average people

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The Perfectionist’s Guide to #ProgressOverPerfection

The Perfectionist’s Guide to #ProgressOverPerfection

There are two kinds of people in this world: perfectionists and those who get things done. As a bona fide perfectionist, this is hard for

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In Defense of Thanksgiving

In Defense of Thanksgiving

Unpopular opinion of the day: Thanksgiving is the best holiday.  Chesterton said “Thanks are the highest form of thought.” What could possibly be a better

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Baby, It’s Culturally Vapid Outside

Baby, It’s Culturally Vapid Outside

I realize the controversy is old. In Internet years, it’s already a relic. But the public discourse has missed some key points that merit review.

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Storyfication: The Art of Making Your Point through Story

Storyfication: The Art of Making Your Point through Story

“I want to tell you a story.” If you want to grab an audience’s attention, there’s not a much better way to do so than

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Spiritual Types

Spiritual Types

I was at Mass with a friend one day and, when I looked over during the Eucharistic Prayer, I noticed she was weeping. Afterward I

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The Illiberalism Heresy

The Illiberalism Heresy

A new crusade is afoot. No, it’s not against the civilization-wrecking incendiaries of ISIS. Nor is it against the single greatest threat to life in

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How to Disagree: Three Rules to Make the Most of Our Divisiveness

How to Disagree: Three Rules to Make the Most of Our Divisiveness

There is a rule that you should never talk about politics or religion in polite company. I’ve never been a fan. What else is worth

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There Is No Such Thing as Unconditional Love—and That’s a Good Thing

There Is No Such Thing as Unconditional Love—and That’s a Good Thing

If there is principle that every self-help guru and relationship specialist can agree on, it’s that the only way to lasting relationships is through ‘unconditional

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The Year Identity Trumped Reality

The Year Identity Trumped Reality

In 2016 we were introduced to the concept of ‘fake news’. In 2017 we didn’t need fake news because reality itself had grown so absurd.

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The Diversity Problem

The Diversity Problem

Lykewyse is a startup based out of San Antonio, TX, offering an assortment of personal assistant apps. In hopes of hitting the big time with

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The Hidden Meaning of ‘Self-Gift’

The Hidden Meaning of ‘Self-Gift’

In a recent homily, my priest said that the problem with marriages these days is the lack of self-gift. “Nobody knows how to say ‘No’

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The Efficacy of Prayer

The Efficacy of Prayer

In a small town in the American Middlewest, a young boy is diagnosed with terminal cancer. His church community rallies together to pray for his

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Fake News Isn’t the Problem, Relativism Is

Fake News Isn’t the Problem, Relativism Is

When the soon-to-be-president Trump called a CNN reporter ‘fake news’ to his face, it was both entertaining and ironic. First of all, it was great

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The 90 Minute Effect: How We Shape Our Lives By The Hollywood Formula And Rarely Reach Our Own Happy Endings The 90 Minute Effect: How We Shape Our Lives By The Hollywood Formula And Rarely Reach Our Own Happy Endings
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