Last December, during a Christmas Eve celebration with my in-laws in California, I observed what I now realize was the future of COVID for older people.
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Four Words to Seem More Polite
Empathy makes you better at cocktail parties—and at life. In a touching Medium post a few days ago, the writer and programmer Paul Ford shared what he thinks is the secret to his politeness.
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How Please Stopped Being Polite
The phrase if it please you has been shortened and shortened over time—until it’s become more brusque than courteous. Growing up in a strict household, I was taught to honor etiquette; I still call my elders “sir” and “ma’am,” and I always say thank you.
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A Bold New Theory Proposes That Humans Tamed Themselves
When I was studying for my doctorate, in the late 1960s, we budding anthropologists read a book called Ideas on Human Evolution, a collection of then-recent papers in the field. With typical graduate-student arrogance, I pronounced it “too many ideas chasing too little data.
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How Far-Right Movements Die
The decline of the John Birch Society offers possible strategies for containing the MAGA movement. Most Americans who have heard of the John Birch Society associate it with the political fringe—and rightly so.
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The New Anarchy
America faces a type of extremist violence it does not know how to stop. “Blood grows hot, and blood is spilled. Thought is forced from old channels into confusion. Deception breeds and thrives. Confidence dies, and universal suspicion reigns.
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The Lost Children of the Nazi Nurseries
Across Europe, some adoptees have had to face a dark realization about their origins. t the small elementary school in Jouy-sous-les-Côtes, in northeastern France, Gisèle Marc knew the rumor about her: that her parents were not her real parents, and her real mother must have been a whore.
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Perfectionism Can Become a Vicious Cycle in Families
Mothers and fathers risk passing down this tendency to the next generation, creating a pattern of dissatisfaction. Roshni Ray Ricchetti was 16 years old when she arrived at MIT with perfect SAT scores and “lots and lots” of AP credits.
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An Ode to Naps
This article was published online on December 19, 2020. With the nap, it can go either way.
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The Inconvenient Truth About Electric Vehicles
The experience of owning, charging, and driving an electric vehicle makes the rising inequality of America more visible in new and subtle ways.
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