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Harvard President Claudine Gay took part in a lighting of the hanukkiah on campus this week.

Climate anxiety, war fatigue, hate speech and cancel culture - as you doom scroll your daily news feed, you might be forgiven for wanting to hide under a pillow instead. But maybe there is an alternative. 

Most would understandably prefer to move on from Covid. But the issues are simply too important.

This is important to understand. When poorly catechized Christians encounter hard questions or crises, and the emotional experience that many worship services create wears off, they’ll be left with no reason to keep their faith.

When I started writing as my passionate hobby, things were much different. My ongoing quest for knowledge, academic credentials, and work experiences was enough to add a level of acceptance

A carnival of cockamamie conspiracy theories, including that the virus was a hoax spread by the democratic party to sabotage donald trumps chances of re-election or a subterfuge by bill gates to implant trackable microchips in peoples bodies and a symptom of the rollout of fifth generation mobile data networks. steven pinker is a professor of psychology at harvard university, author of "rationality: what it is, why it seems scarce, and why it matters." professor pinker, welcome back to the progr...

Twists and turns of his story have so far resulted in five bodies and seven investigations. joining me now to discuss is valerie, national reporter with the "wall street journal" and author of this piece, "can unraveling of the murdaugh dynasty: unsolved murders, insurance fraud and missing loans." valerie, the case is so complicated that i have created my own flowchart to follow along. heres the way that i think i would begin. alec was married to maggie. they had two sons, buster and paul. magg...

America mean you are wealthy? up ahead, why in the information age has much of america lost its sense of rationality? harvard psychologist, best-selling author steven pinker is here to explain the loss of critical thinking. i bring families together for a living. i make memories for people i dont know yet. i know this view is too good not to be shared. i am a vrbo host. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ subway® has so much new,

Professor Robert Pinker Receives Astor Award The Commonwealth Press Union Media Trust has presented the 2020 Astor Award to Professor Robert Pinker for his outstanding contribution to press freedom across the Commonwealth. The Astor Award is one of the most prestigious – and one of the oldest – press freedom awards in the world. First presented over 50 years ago in 1970, previous winners represent a remarkable and distinguished cross-section of individuals who have made an enormous contrib...