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Latest ArticlesHelping college students launchAugust 26, 2023 • The Dallas Morning News In a lecture on career and calling as part of a Baylor summer program in Washington D.C., George Mason University psychology professor Lauren Kuykendall stressed to the undergraduates in the audience the limits of introspection in discerning future paths for their lives. It turns out that gaining self-knowledge is a lot more difficult than we think, and figuring out career and calling is more a matter of trial and error, and learning from others, than it is just looking inside ourselves. There's a lot of concern about today's youth. Much of it has to do with what might be called the failure to launch, a sense that today's youth are taking a lot longer to become independent adults.
Jacques Maritain and Art for Beauty's SakeApril 28, 2023 • Acton Institute Today we remember a profound thinker who continues to remind us of the danger of instrumentalized art in the service of merely ideological ends—and the role of hospitality, personal influence, in the upholding of truth.
NCAA: Jim Valvano and the improbable championship of North Carolina State in 1983April 3, 2023 • The Dallas Morning News It's been 40 years since one of the greatest upsets in NCAA tournament basketball history, when North Carolina State University beat the highly favored University of Houston and future Hall-of-Famers Clyde Drexler and Hakeem Olajuwon in the title game. It's been 30 years since the coach of that championship team, Jim Valvano, delivered his famous ESPY Awards speech. Valvano died of cancer the following month.
The blessings of Irish grief
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