Culture
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Our dating lives have become more atomized, excluding the social capital from friends and family that has traditionally benefitted courtship.
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Poet Melanie Hyo-In Han discusses the importance of honesty and recognition of loss within her identity as a third culture kid.
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America’s mass incarceration system is built on Beowulf’s same mistaken view for how we ought to address “evil” in society.
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War and Peace is rooted in Tolstoy’s longing for the infinite and universal. Yet, it reveals our need to focus on the concrete and mundane.
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Parks and Rec expounds a great deal upon the teachings of Stoicism, but it is Garry Gergich—not Ron Swanson—who embodies the Stoic ideals.
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Whether we are religious or claim no sense of the spiritual, sacred spaces help us to better confront the transient nature of existence.
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In this epistolary, Melanie Han reflects on her experiences with racism, intergenerational family dynamics, and tensions surrounding identity.
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Children’s films tend to emphasize the role of destiny or chance, but existential themes can be found in a few that highlight the importance of…