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WHAT COMES AFTER AMERICA
Emily St. John Mandel’s latest work of science fiction considers the tenuousness of any possible future.

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Mortal Enemies or Lovers? The Odd Obsession With Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner
A new movie has fans re-evaluating the dynamics behind the violent chase

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The Books We Read Too Late—And That You Should Read Now
One of the great, bittersweet pleasures of life is finishing a title and thinking about how it might have affected you—if only you’d found it sooner.

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Five Best: Visions of the Afterlife
The author of the novel ‘Cloud Six’ on conversations with angels, sojourns in limbo and one memorable journey to the world of the damned.

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The Camino de Santiago Is Only the Start of a Journey
After a pilgrimage through Spain, the challenge is carrying its lessons forward in everyday life. The prior, related article

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Did 9/11 Really Change Everything?
Were the terrorist attacks that day the end of an idyllic era? The beginning of our current dystopia? Or just a middle chapter?

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This Was a Good Sculpture
Washington, D.C., is full of cords of connection. By removing a Joel Shapiro work, the Kennedy Center severed one.

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Sep 91 min read
Let's take a few moments to remember this week, 25 years ago...
Remembering 9/11: Where tragedy left its marks Related: the moment our president becomes aware and responds Related: WHAT SEPTEMBER 11 TOOK FROM ME

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Sep 81 min read
Can ‘Old World’ Skills Revive a Small Mountain Town?
In North Carolina’s Lost Provinces, residents see the arts as a pathway to sustainability and maintaining community.

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Sep 71 min read
What to Read to Wake Up Your Brain
These books can ease readers into a season of work and hard thinking.

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Sep 71 min read
Three examples of Pantakinesis' value: •for better financial planing, •business modeling & strategies, •and personal career navigation (UII w/Claude)
DM How might embracing the "3 Pillars" of all humans' actual reality: • all-encompassing, • kinetic and • vanishing points, (together known as Pantakinesis...) ...bring about significant advancements in human thought, response and vigilance within these three contextual examples: 1) Financial planning and investments? 2) Business modeling/strategies? 3) Career navigation? The core of what you're asking can't be researched — since the three pillars live within our shared corpu

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Sep 611 min read
Aristotle’s 10 Rules for a Good Life
An ancient Greek recipe for happiness

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Sep 51 min read
This Vintage Printing Press Has Become a Darling of Silicon Valley
Books from Arion Press, crafted with lead and tin, can sell for tens of thousands of dollars

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Sep 51 min read
Academia Is in Trouble and This English Professor Understands Why
Combining wicked satire with genuine hope, Randy Boyagoda’s latest novel takes on the financial, moral and cultural crises plaguing modern academia More

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Sep 51 min read
ON THE PASSING OF WENDELL BERRY
Members of Dordt's faculty reflect on how Wendell Berry's Christian imagination has shaped their own vision for faithful living.

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The Missing Ingredient of Modern Life
Why we need wonder Excerpt: "Efficiency now infuses every aspect of contemporary life, if you let it. ...Optimization is terrific if you want to get somewhere else in the future. But it’s terrible for being where you actually are right now. ...I've come to believe that wonder, the most immense of our sensations, is the antidote." "Whenever you cease treating the world as scenery or equipment, you’ll find that you encounter the world as something inexhaustibly, constantly pre

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Sep 41 min read
Tom Wolfe’s ‘Me Decade’: Still going strong 50 years later
The peerless social critic skewered a culture of self-absorption much like today's.

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Aug 301 min read
WE’RE LIVING IN THE WORLD DOLLY PARTON BUILT
Country music is surging, female singer-songwriters are on top, and audiences crave honest voices like hers. She was more generous than you may have known

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Aug 301 min read
The Surprising Mental-Health Benefits of Getting Away
Forget the staycation. Research reveals that travel can build stress resilience, sharpen cognitive health and ward off depression far better than staying home

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Aug 291 min read
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater: A House at One With Nature
The iconic example of ‘organic architecture,’ constructed as a lodge for weekend getaways, embedded a modern building in the landscape in a radical vision of the way each could enhance the other.

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Aug 291 min read
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