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It’s not your imagination — Donald Trump is neither a whole nor a wholly unique, person. When he’s not paraphrasing and blushingly idolizing known dictators both living and dead, he blunders into the world of unintentional parody to seek…

Lost among all the venomous op-eds about listless millennials and their avocados is a simple fact: Generations Y and Z are far more optimistic than their elders. In fact, after generations of fatalism, and even as they find themselves…

In 1990, the band They Might Be Giants put out the album Flood, which featured a song called "Your Racist Friend". I liked the song, but to my naive and sheltered 17-year old self, the idea of socializing with anyone labeled "racist" was…

"I was four – nearly five – years old when I realised my mother didn’t love me," Sarah* recalls. "I’d got lost on the beach, and she came after me. She was annoyed – accusing me of 'wandering off', and 'not paying attention'. I started to…

At the end of a week that saw RTÉ air its acclaimed documentary No Country For Women, while news of the dearth of women at the MacGill summer school flooded the internet, Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Trinity College, Dublin address offered a…

At first glance, the psychologist and the writer make unlikely bedfellows: the bohemian creative versus the silent sage.  If the task of the psychologist is to study, assess, and treat problems affecting the human mind, then the writer must…

School is how we train our kids for what to expect from life when they reach adulthood. We should be concerned, then, about what exactly we’re teaching them. Between helicopter parenting, jarringly early starts to the school day, overloaded…

When the exit polls were released for the referendum on the Eighth Amendment, I was speechless. Never in my wildest dreams, had I considered such a strong Yes vote. On May 25th I would say I was cautiously optimistic, but even that hesitant…

Many exceptionally talented and world-changing people have led disgraceful personal lives. In fact, the list is probably too long to count. Winston Churchill was an outspoken champion of chemical warfare. Bill Cosby — “America’s Dad” — is a…

1. May is my favourite month. The days stretch out improbably and the skies clear and you can just believe that perhaps the sun might shine for the whole summer long. It’s all promise and opportunity, and if it rains you can still call it…