Emily Esfahani Smith
Emily Esfahani Smith is associate editor of The New Criterion and managing editor of Defining Ideas, a journal of the Hoover Institution. Her writings have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New Criterion, the Daily Beast, the Atlantic, and the Washington Times. A graduate of Dartmouth College, she was editor of the Dartmouth Review.
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Is Life Still Good After Boston?
I’m currently enrolled in a graduate program at the University of Pennsylvania in positive psychology, the study of human well-being.…
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Post of the Week
Caught in the celebrity-baby craze? Why are we so obsessed? Check out this week’s Post of the Week by Abby…
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A Beautiful Moment at Wednesday’s Boston Bruins
A beautiful and unexpected thing occurred at Wednesday night’s Boston Bruins game: The entire crowd comes together to sing the…
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The High Price of Ambition
This month, many of the nation’s best and brightest high school seniors will receive thick envelopes in the mail announcing…
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Post of the Week
Do you have some guilty-pleasure music on your iPod? Check out Ashley McGuire’s post on Plato and trashy music–this week’s Post…
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Give Monogamy a Chance
The hit HBO series Girls, which is wildly popular with twenty-something audiences, is also notorious for its frank portrayals of the…
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Post of the Week
Mark Judge’s piece on the virtues of a good ol’ #2 haircut gets the nod this week.
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Post of the Week
Check out Emily Esfahani Smith’s post on success, happiness, and the value of community in our lives.
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There’s More to Life Than Being Successful
Listening to the Acculturated podcast with Rod Dreher, which we published yesterday, made me wonder about some of the cultural…
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How Technology Is Killing Human Connections, Happy Hour Edition
Will everything one day be sacrificed on the altar of convenience and efficiency? When it comes to how we interact…
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Cancer Survivor Melissa Etheridge Says Angelina Jolie’s Mastectomy “Wasn’t a Brave Choice”–Mail Online
When Angelina Jolie underwent a preventative…
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Kim Kardashian, Kanye Need to “Focus” on Premature Baby, Says Dr. Oz–UsMagazine
Dr. Mehmet Oz has some cautionary…
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Buddhist Monks Are Having a Louis Vuitton Scandal–New York Magazine
A viral video showing Buddhist monks…
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Listening to Young Atheists: Lessons for a Stronger Christianity–The Atlantic
When a Christian foundation interviewed college…
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Albert Einstein’s Advice to His 11-Year-Old Son–Brain Pickings
“That is the way to learn…
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Interesting piece over at @Acculturated on the NBA Finals and what each team (loosely) represents acculturated.com/2013/06/18/the… #DPRS
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What is Pop Culture? What is High Culture? acculturated.com/2013/05/08/wha… … via @Acculturated Must read!
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Watching the #NBAFinals? Read my review of the cultural implications of these two teams acculturated.com/2013/06/18/the… @Acculturated #Heat #Spurs
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These pageants and tv shows about pageants continue to be a financial boon at the expense of female dignity. acculturated.com/2013/06/18/dis… #tcot
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