Free Course: Eliminate Your Inner “Nice Guy” and Pass Girl’s Secret Tests

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Posted June 21, 2017

This question occurred to me after speaking with one of the bartenders at my local café-bar the other day. She is quite an attractive woman: young, tall, long honey brown hair, a ...

Making Sense Of Cultural Appropriation

Posted June 16, 2017

Cultural appropriation refers to members of a larger, wealthier, and more powerful group taking ideas, art, and artifacts from people of a historically oppressed and marginalized g ...

Is A Discrete Romance Still Possible?

Posted June 15, 2017

There may be a number of reasons why you prefer to pursue a discrete—not to say secret—romance. It isn’t a case of being ashamed of your crush. Indeed, she may also want the ...

Your Money In Britain—After The Election

Posted June 9, 2017

Tired, hungry, shocked, exuberant—this describes my general condition as I write this. Nearly every commentator and pollster, with the exception of YouGov and Survation, called i ...

Why Free Speech Is Worth Fighting For

Posted June 8, 2017

Free speech on college campuses is in danger. As a college man, you may have only taken a passing interest in the issue, but things have come to such a head that the ability of any ...

How To Become A World-Class Wit

Posted June 2, 2017

It has occurred to me lately that there is an abundance of comedy, a great deal of snark, a surfeit of indignation, and an endless mine of hate in the public sphere. But there is v ...

Is Friendliness Possible With All Your Political Opposites?

Posted June 1, 2017

This may be one of the most pressing questions of our time. Some weeks ago I wrote about hypocrisy and the forces that push us toward it. That article was concerned mostly with bei ...

Why You Should Think Like Plato—Sometimes

Posted May 26, 2017

The Greek philosopher Plato was a native of Athens. Born in 427 B.C.E, he was of distinguished aristocratic lineage on both his mother’s and father’s side. He came of age durin ...

How To Deal With A Sexually Tense Relationship

Posted May 25, 2017

Attraction is a mysterious and protean feeling. You cannot force it, and you can never control it. Sexual tension is a kind of attraction that occurs instantly and unexpectedly and ...

How To Dress Well Without Trying

Posted May 19, 2017

Every woman’s crazy for a sharp dressed man. So goes the popular tune by ZZ Top. There is much truth in it. Women respond well to men who wear nice clothes and look good in them. ...