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Michael Douglas · United StatesAmerican men are having a hard time right now. They’re behind in school, staying single, earning less, drinking more, and dying younger. They’re also taking out their anger on women online, in the home, and in mass shootings, and taking dubious advice from social media influencers pushing ice baths and raw meat diets. They’d be better off looking to the films of Michael Douglas, argues Jessa Crispin in her new book, What Is Wrong With Men: Patri…Read Article
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Education · United States“Scoff your food? Means the same as bolt it down. Or gobble it. Essentially, to eat very fast and greedily.” As I explained the meaning to my two students—a meaning I hadn’t known but had instantly intuited from the context in the article we were reading and had almost as quickly looked up to confirm—as I explained the word, so similar to scarf, I wondered where it had come from and why. It likely had a different origin than scoff, meaning to mo…Read Article