Diogenes In Exile

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In Praise of Childhood Bullying
The long-term consequences of short-circuiting childhood challenges.
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Ohana Means... uh…Crap!: How Disney’s Live Action Lilo & Stitch Became an Ad for Child Protective Services
Part love letter, part eulogy, mostly facepalm
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Can Freedom Survive A World Without Consequences?
As technology redefines our choices, America must decide what kind of society we want to build.
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Are You Ruining Psychology in the Name of Ethics? Take the ‘Am I the Baddie?’ Quiz And Find Out!
Because nothing says “healing” like coerced ideology.
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Play The Gatekeeper Game! The Most Fun You’ll Ever Have Being Denied a License
Satirical? Yes. Implausible? Sadly, no.
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The Real Reason College Grads Get Hired (It’s Not What You Think)
What’s the real lesson of college? Obey, endure, repeat.
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I Let AI Help Me Write. It Now Has a Favorite Philosopher
This is what happens when you feed a cynic to AI
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Can You Survive the Bureaucratic Hunger Games?
Licensing logic so twisted, Kafka would take notes.
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A Fairytale That Starts Where Most Stories End
What happens when the institutions we trust forget their purpose?
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Why Ovechkin’s Record Was the Antidote to Our Achievement-Starved Era
A torch passed in the most ancient way: through mastery, not media.
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10 Things the Progressive Left No Longer Believes In
If we want peace, we need principles. Time to choose.
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The DEI Crackdown Has Begun—But the Battle Is Far From Over
Destroying bad systems isn’t enough—we need to replace them and build something better.
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