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The Unfinished Business of Kennedy’s Vision for World Peace

DPstaff April 20, 2024April 20, 2024

Philip A. Goduti, Jr. in The Conversation: Less than a week after her husband’s assassination in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, Jackie Kennedy granted an interview with esteemed political writer

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Should Children Have Smartphones?

DPstaff April 20, 2024April 20, 2024

Author Haidt: Social Media is Spreading Mental Illness New York Times Book Review: Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt’s erudite, engaging, combative, crusading new book “The Anxious Generation” (Z) highlights what he

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A Poem has Secrets that the Poet Knows Nothing Of

DPstaff April 20, 2024April 20, 2024

at Poetic Outlaws: Stanley Kunitz received numerous awards for his poetry, including the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry twice (in 1959 and 2005). His works often explored the vital kinship between

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Saturday Poem: Desperate Measures

DPstaff April 20, 2024April 20, 2024

there are so many ways to fallso many ways to crack down the middle andvanishso many ways to singe your wingsso many ways to crawlto crashland in the swamp withouta

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3 Types of Friends: Leaves, Branches, & Roots

DPstaff April 19, 2024April 19, 2024

Sahil Bloom at The Friday Five: Actor Tyler Perry—portraying his wise Madea alter ego—once shared a brilliant framing for thinking about your relationships. There are three types of people in

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Americans Have a Long History of Worrying About Declinism

DPstaff April 19, 2024April 19, 2024

By Joseph S. Nye Jr. at Time: As election year politics heat up, Donald Trump proclaims that he can “Make America Great Again” and Joe Biden promises a brighter future,

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Guide to Reading Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations

DPstaff April 19, 2024April 19, 2024

At Daily Stoic: So many people struggle with and get frustrated by Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations…and they have ever since it was first discovered after the emperor’s death nearly twenty centuries

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A New Forein Policy Era Dawns

DPstaff April 19, 2024April 19, 2024

William Kristol and Andrew Egger at The Bulwark: All around us, there are indications—I’m tempted, in honor of Passover next week, to call them signs and portents—of a new era.

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How to Disagree Without Compromise

DPstaff April 19, 2024April 18, 2024

A Podcast at Wisdom of Crowds: Many attempts have been made to deal with polarization. A lot of it has to do with putting people with diverging perspectives face-to-face in

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Friday Poem: Reflections by Javed Ansari

DPstaff April 19, 2024April 18, 2024

Droplets of meditation brim forth,the cauldron boils perpetually —through the tedium of life.The etched screen is myself and on itmy rebellious spirit flits unsatiated, unquenchedsomewhere on the borders of a

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An Essay: Nero’s Violin

DPstaff April 18, 2024April 18, 2024

By Judson Vereen at Poetic Outlaws: It was sometime in the evening and I was downstairs in the basement with my father. He was polishing wood. I was painting. I

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Sit-ins on Company Dime: Google Fires 28

DPstaff April 18, 2024April 18, 2024

Liz Wolfe at Reason: Yesterday, Google fired 28 of its workers after employees held sit-ins to protest the company’s contracts with the Israeli government. The employees were part of a

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