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Post of the Week
R. J. Moeller’s post on C. S. Lewis’s double life as a Christian author and a complicated man.
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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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Post of the Week
Mark Tapson’s excellent piece on cooking merits our Post of the Week award. Check out his thoughts on what he…
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The Benefits of Optimism
Have you seen or read Silver Linings Playbook and/or Life of Pi? If you haven’t, I couldn’t recommend them more. My latest…
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Tupac Shakur & Helping Men Become Men
I recently came across an old song by Tupac Shakur, “Keep Ya Head Up.” It was another reminder of a phenomenon…
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Why Have Kids? They Make Life Meaningful
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Could Today’s “American Girl” Be Any Blander?
Have you read any of the American Girl books? I just finished the 2013 Girl of the Year installment about…
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Zero Recognition for Zero Dark Thirty
After Sunday’s broadcast of the Academy Awards, many noticed the Oscars’ silence in response to this year’s film directed by…
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Jennifer Lawrence: From Cute to Vulgar
by Ashley E. McGuire
Jennifer Lawrence, Hollywood’s new “It girl,” appears to have charmed the world with her post-Oscar press conference,…
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THE DAILY SCENE
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The New Culture of Parental Paranoia–Zócalo Public Square
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Do Children Make Us Happy?–Pacific Standard
Several months ago, the novelist Zadie…
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Learn to Socialize by Talking to Your Computer–Betabeat
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Russell Brand Wants to Be Treated With Respect–Gawker
Comedian Russell Brand was invited to…
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The New Culture of Parental Paranoia. A child outside on her own…. #TheHorror! acculturated.com/daily-scene/a-…
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How to Stop Inadvertently Objectifying Women | Acculturated acculturated.com/2013/06/19/how… via @Acculturated
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How to Stop Inadvertently Objectifying Women: Andy Hinds & Louis C.K. publicly vent about their discipline struggles acculturated.com/2013/06/19/how…
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Do children, the “bundles of joy,” make parents happy or unhappy? New psychological study may have the answer… acculturated.com/daily-scene/do…
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