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Campus Life at
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Youth sentiment is a notoriously hard thing to track. Polling is a fraught enough enterprise without having to deal with flaky kids, occasionally impenetrable survey questions, and the real possibility that words such as “confidence” or “satisfied” might not mean the same thing from one generation to the next.
~ Jay Caspian Kang via The New Yorker
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Interesting Read
via the American Affairs Journal:
No Solvency, No Security
by Trae Stephens
published in their Winter 2025 edition
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“If I’m gonna have any looks at all, I’m gonna have to create them,” Dolly Parton once said. She was talking about makeup and plastic surgery, things she felt no shame in loving, but it’s hard to read that quote and not also think about what it means to be a visionary—to invent a whole world from nothing.
~ Amanda Petrusich via The New Yorker
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Midday Music Fix
Fukushima Dolphin – A Horse With No Name
This is the second busking video featuring Fukushima Dolphin – a duo based in Brighton Beach, England – that we have posted. Seamas Anstruther alerted us to the band, but unlike the previous video, he did not stick around long enought on the Brighton boardwalk to see the duo perfoms this sone back in March 2022.
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People who have worked in both China and Silicon Valley tend to comment on the similarities: the belief in rapid change, the power of engineers, the odes to humanity that mask impatience with actual humans.
~ Evan Osnos via The New Yorker
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Empires of the past were built upon the idea that conquest was the divine right of great powers. There was no legal distinction between the acquisition, occupation and takeover of foreign territory. The Portuguese did as they wished in Angola, and the British did as they wished in India.
~ Linda Kinstler via The New York Times
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General Maxwell D. Taylor was born
on this day in 1901
Maxwell D. Taylor – the American four-star general who served as the 5th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the 20th Chief of Staff of the Army – was born on this day – August 26, 1901 – in Keytesville, Missouri.
He was a graduate of the United States Military Academy and the Command and General Staff College.
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