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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
It turns out that in order to think well, knowledge helps.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thanks to postmodernism, we tend to see all facts as meaningless trivia, no one more vital than any other. Yet this disregard for facts qua facts is intellectually crippling. Facts are the raw material of thought, and the knowledge of significant facts makes sophisticated thought possible.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some information is important, and some is not, and intelligence consists in knowing one from the other.
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- Nov 07, 2020
George Washington didn't have to make us laugh; he just had to establish precedents and avoid chopping down more cherry trees than he could possibly help. But somewhere along the line, Americans began expecting their presidents to do more than just govern. They also had to make us laugh.
- Nov 07, 2020
All the young voters who flocked to Obama in droves grew up watching 'The Daily Show' and the 'Colbert Report.'
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obama isn't funny.
- Diversity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Harvard prides itself on its diversity - economic, racial, social, geographical - but it remains intellectually segregated. It's not what conservative commentators seem to imagine - a bastion of liberal professors force-feeding radical opinions to a naive student body.
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- Nov 07, 2020
By isolating ourselves from those with whose opinions we disagree, we lose the ability to defend our beliefs.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hi, my name is Alexandra, and I'm a netaholic.
- Better Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
At Harvard, where students tend to respond to real-world celebrities with the vague sense that they could do a better job themselves, the recipe for celebrity is complex.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a millennial. Destruction is all I know. I no longer care what I wipe from the face of the Earth.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There should be no real difficulty in condemning Nazis, white supremacists, and the Ku Klux Klan. They are, for God's sake, Nazis and white supremacists. This should not require moral courage. This is obvious. This is the moral equivalent of the text you type to prove you're not a robot.
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- Nov 07, 2020
History contains heroes, but no one is a hero entirely, and no one is a hero for very long.
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can be brilliant in some ways and despicable in others. You can be a clean, upright, moral individual in your private life who never swears, treats women with respect, and speaks highly of duty and honor - and go out every day and dedicate yourself to a cause that makes the world worse.
- Creative Outlet
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- Nov 07, 2020
MS Paint was my creative outlet for many years.
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- Nov 07, 2020