A Good Man Is Hard to Find
The Vietnam War changed the cinematic hero. Catch-22 was the first war film to celebrate a shirker.
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Former literary editor of the Wilson Quarterly, Jeffery Paine is author of Re-Enchantment: Tibetan Buddhism Comes to the West (Norton), Father India: How Encounters with an Ancient Culture Transformed the Modern West (HarperCollins), and most recently of Tales of Wonder (HarperCollins), with Huston Smith.
Articles by Jeffery Paine
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The Nitty Gritty: Self-Esteem vs. Self-Control
Angela Duckworth has done more than anyone else to popularize the term grit. An assistant professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, Duckworth once taught low-income children. She wondered:Is IQ the key factor in predicting success?
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What Would I Have Done?
A leading expert on Hitler and the Third Reich asks himself this question — and contemplates the costs of passivity.
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A Good Man is Hard to Find
Vietnam changed the cinematic hero. Catch-22 is the first war film to celebrate a shirker.
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A Generous Helping: One woman’s return to childhood plenitude
When I was a kid, Thanksgiving was my least favorite holiday. Just a dreary afternoon at an aunt’s house with a lot of old people, endless football on the TV and always the same food, much of it the sort that a picky child like myself had no interest in – sweet potatoes and cranberry sauce and fruit salad and apple pie. Turkey was boring, and sometimes even the usually reliable dressing was ruined by rubbery chunks of hard-boiled egg. Without the gifts of Christmas, the romantic intrigue of Valentine’s Day, the fried chicken and fireworks of Independence Day, the candy and costumes of Halloween, I could spare no interest for some staid celebration of family and togetherness and the tiresome notion of generosity.
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