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Soap Operas and Public Health

We can learn a lot from television.  Sometimes the best teaching comes when presented in a dramatic form.  Soap Operas have been a stable of American television for fifty years and their very structure brings form to understanding.

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The Celebrity Class and the Decline of Deference

Toby Young is Michael Young’s son. Fifty years ago, Michael Young wrote the groundbreaking book, “The Rise of the Meritocracy.”  Today, Toby examines the popularity of his father’s book and how the very idea of a “meritocracy” — a term his father coined — to condemn the British elite, has now been replaced with the “celebritariat.”

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Ten Twenty-Two

A serpent’s tooth.

A child’s bawl.

Together — they dance ungrateful.

Ten Twenty-One

Passed out at 21.

Stewed in utero.

A born drunk.

Ten Twenty

Evelyn turned twenty, missed her teens, and the subtracting began.