Teaching myself calculus at sixty-five
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Carrying out executions took a secret toll on workers — then changed their politics
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I no longer grade my students’ work – and I wish I had stopped sooner
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I signed up to write college essays for rich kids. I found cheating is more complicated than I thought.
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On being a philosopher with autism
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How Ayn Rand ruined my childhood
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Finding faith in the gods of the Vikings – Richard didn't expect his hobby would help him find his own belief through Norse mythology
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Korean education: A view from the trenches
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Translation and the family of things - A young writer discovers her grandmother’s literary secret
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What teaching ethics in Appalachia taught me about bridging America’s partisan divide
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Long shot: The story of a Kurdish sniper
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My religious OCD convinced me God would never love me
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Learning my father’s language: I made a vow to teach myself Irish, the language my mother struggled to learn, so that my daughters may learn it too
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I'm a Christian doctor and I help women have abortions. Here's how I reconcile that.
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So I became a historian—Now I’m telling how it worked out
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Jonestown’s victims have a lesson to teach us, so I listened
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A toy monkey that escaped Nazi Germany and reunited a family
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At 63, I threw away my prized portrait of Robert E. Lee
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I survived the Warsaw ghetto. Here are the lessons I’d like to pass on
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I was Jordan Peterson’s strongest supporter. Now I think he’s dangerous
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The last slave ship survivor gave an interview in the 1930s. It just surfaced in the form of a new book
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