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It's wonderful that Sen. Murphy has supported a “combat loneliness bill” since Dec. 7, 2003, and wants to tackle the epidemic of loneliness, both within the state and nationwide. Indeed, the Surgeon G...

Why these campuses need to change, and how to bring about essential transformations. I came of age intellectually in an era of big nonfiction books, both popular—like Silent Spring, The Feminine Mystique and Unsafe at Any Speed)—and academic, by such scholars as Eugene Genovese, Erving Goffman and Thomas Kuhn. That era was followed by a succession of truly path-breaking scholarly books. Among the greatest were Orlando Patterson’s magisterial history of freedom and the making of Western cul...

American society is dis-integrating, becoming disconnected. That's killing people. It's urgent that we find ways to "assemble", in the sense of "come together".

Is it possible that pickleball could help unify the nation at a time when the leaders of our mainstream parties have utterly failed to do so?