We Found Love, Part 3: ‘I Was Expecting a Pen Pal’

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We Found Love, Part 3: ‘I Was Expecting a Pen Pal’

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For the final episode in our series “We Found Love,” we explore the psychology behind prison relationships, a proposed law in Massachusetts that would eliminate life sentences without parole, and the story of an incarcerated man who’s wrestling with the pressures of a young relationship. Email us at loveletters@boston.com.

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S3E4: Eat, Pray, Love, Eat: One night on a dark dance floor, Douglass Williams bumped into the woman who would change his life. Not just because they went on to get married and start a family together. She gave him a lifelong gift -- one he didn’t know he was looking for … Have a story of your own? Email us at loveletters@boston.com. by Love Letters
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Charlotte Mason’s Paradoxical Principle, Part 3: Personhood Explored: The Atmosphere of Personhood This is the final article in a series on Charlotte Mason’s concept of personhood. The first article dealt with Mason’s doctrine of personhood, discussing what Mason believed the human person is. by Charlotte Mason Poetry
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James Otteson on the End of Socialism: James Otteson talks to host Russ Roberts about his new book, The End of Socialism. Otteson argues that socialism (including what he calls the "socialist inclination") is morally and practically inferior to capitalism. Otteson contrasts socialism and capitalism through the views of G. A. Cohen and Adam Smith. Otteson emphasizes the importance of moral agency and respect for the individual in his defense of capitalism. The conversation also includes a discussion of the deep appeal of the tenets of socialism such as equality and the impulse for top-down planning. by EconTalk
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Send us your stories about help: On the next season of Love Letters, we’ll be featuring stories about the important role help and guidance from others plays in our relationship choices and love lives, from therapy and professional interventions to advice and assistance from friends, family members, and confidantes. If you have a story about a time someone helped you in your romantic life — or maybe a story about how you gave assistance to someone else — we’d love to hear from you. Email us at loveletters@boston.com. by Love Letters
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Mark Lewis Taylor, The Executed God: Twenty-five percent of all the people incarcerated in the world are in America's prison... by Freedom Loves Company
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Episode 28: University Professors After the U.S. Capitol Riot: Good Intentions and Disastrous Ends, Martha McCaughey and Scott Welsh: This episode—released one year after the U.S. Capitol Riot—examines the role of the “scholar-activist” and how their good intentions may unintentionally lead to disastrous ends. We sit down and discuss these topics with Appalachian State University pro... by Heterodox Out Loud
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How to tap into the transformative power of reading (with Michelle Kuo): Michelle Kuo, Teacher, writer, lawyer by How to Be a Better Human
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Dr. Christine Montross on Rethinking Incarceration in America: Dr. Christine Montross, author of the new book “Waiting for an Echo: The Madness of American Incarceration” and an associate professor at Brown University, speaks with us about developing a more empathic understanding of isolation, the resilience that comes with collectively undergoing a harrowing experience, and the misconceptions that form when prison inmates are seen as “other” by society. by At a Distance
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Episode 13: Rethinking Sex by Wear We Are
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973: Sam Young Set to be Excommunicated for Protecting LDS Children from Sexual Abuse: BREAKING NEWS! Please join us on Mormon Stories Podcast as we discuss the Mormon Church’s announcement that it plans to excommunicate Sam Young for attempting to Protect LDS Children from sexual abuse. The council is currently scheduled to convene... by Mormon Stories - LDS
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Whence Came You? - 0176 - The First Esoteric Freemason Minute: Episode - 0176 - The First Esoteric Freemason Minute by Whence Came You? - Freemasonry discussed and Masonic research for today's Freemason
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Rationally Speaking #73 - Answers for Aristotle: Massimo's new book, Answers for Aristotle, whose central idea is that a combination of science and philosophy, or "Sci-Phi," is the best guide to the big questions in life, from issues of morality and justice to the meaning of love and friendship. by Rationally Speaking Podcast
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Ep 108: Backwards Law & Not Giving a F#ck: In this episode I cover the book "The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck" by Mark Manson and the paradoxical Backwards Law. How is it that the less we give a shit, the better we do at something? I explore all this and more, so get your life and get super deep on it, bros. by Where My Moms At? w/ Christina P.
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Julia Stephens, “Governing Islam: Law, Empire, and Secularism in Modern South Asia” (Cambridge UP, 2018): Stephens examines how Islam and Muslims were regulated within legal domains that managed various spheres of life... by New Books in Islamic Studies
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Julia Stephens, “Governing Islam: Law, Empire, and Secularism in Modern South Asia” (Cambridge UP, 2018): Stephens examines how Islam and Muslims were regulated within legal domains that managed various spheres of life... by New Books in Law
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Episode 131 "Negative Review, Harari, and Prop Bets" by There Will Be Books
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Can We Change Our Sexual Desires? Should We?: “Feminists have long dreamed of sexual freedom,” writes Amia Srinivasan. “What they refuse to accept is its simulacrum: sex that is said to be free, not because it is equal, but because it is ubiquitous.” Srinivasan is an Oxford philosopher who, in 2018, wrote the viral essay “Does Anyone Have the Right to Sex?” Her piece was inspired by Elliot Rodger’s murderous rampage and the misogynist manifesto he published to justify it. But Srinivasan’s inquiry opened out to larger questions about the relationship between sex and status, what happens when we’re undesired for unjust reasons and whether we can change our own preferences and passions. The task, as she frames it, is “not imagining a desire regulated by the demands of justice, but a desire set free from the binds of injustice.” I love that line. Srinivasan’s new book of essays, “The Right to Sex,” includes that essay alongside other challenging pieces considering consent, pornography, s by The Ezra Klein Show
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