Education

What talk of brainwashing helps us not to talk about.

Today is April 1, April Fools’ Day, the annual holiday that celebrates pranking, hoaxes, and all manner of horseplay and tomfoolery. But why? Where did this faux holiday come from? Why do we do this to each other, and when will we finally just stop?

Common knowledge says the maximum size of PDF is as big as 40% of Germany — but that’s a gross underestimate.

In a grim irony, his descendants – my grandmother and mother – struggled with drink. Here’s what I’d tell him about addiction.

Surveys in 36 countries find that Christianity and Buddhism have the biggest losses from ‘religious switching.’

Weston Allen knew he wasn’t going to be popular with his professors before he even started his PhD in counseling at the University of Virginia.

It was 1988. My first year as a high school English teacher in a girls’ school had just ended. I was heading to Alabama for my wedding when the head of the school called me to his office to announce a temporary reassignment for the following fall. “Ms.

American universities have given the country prosperity and security. The Trump administration’s attack on academic freedom endangers all of that. The United States is home to the best collection of research universities in the world.

This is an excerpt from issue no. 160, “From Antarctica with Love.” Devon in the summer of 1913 was beautiful. Green fields rolled until they met the blue of a low-hanging sky dotted with fair-weather clouds. Sheep milled about on the hillsides, and the breeze smelled faintly of the sea.

‘Was it really the greatest siege?’ Catherine de Medici asked. ‘Greater even than Rhodes?’ ‘Yes, madame,’ the knight commander Antoine de La Roche answered, ‘greater even than Rhodes. It was the greatest siege in history.