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Alexandra Petri

American Journalist

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Harvard pulsates with life and thought of all kinds, and religion should not be left out of its ongoing discussions. Alexandra Petri

Life Religion Thought Harvard Out Kinds Ongoing Left Discussions Should

I can be serious for an hour; then I have to go lie down. Alexandra Petri

Lie Down Hour Go Then Serious

Journalists run many risks. It comes with the profession. Alexandra Petri

Risks Run Journalists Profession Many

Dull words are what make many bright sentences shine. They do not call attention to themselves. Alexandra Petri

Words Shine Attention Make Call Dull Sentences Themselves Many Bright

It's easier to find the joke in something when you think, 'This - this is ridiculous.' Alexandra Petri

You Joke Think Easier Find Something Ridiculous

Although no one explicitly wants a president who could have a reliable fall back career in stand-up comedy, everyone shudders at the thought of a Rutherford B. Hayes or John Kerry. Alexandra Petri

Comedy Thought Fall President Back Everyone Reliable John John Kerry Could No-One Although Wants Explicitly Stand-Up Comedy Who Career Kerry

Thanks to postmodernism, we tend to see all facts as meaningless trivia, no one more vital than any other. Yet this disregard for facts qua facts is intellectually crippling. Facts are the raw material of thought, and the knowledge of significant facts makes sophisticated thought possible. Alexandra Petri

Knowledge Thought Thanks Other Crippling Possible Significant See Vital Postmodernism Trivia More Tend Facts No-One Raw Raw Material Sophisticated Makes Material Intellectually Than Any Meaningless Disregard

Obama isn't funny. Alexandra Petri

Funny Obama

Harvard prides itself on its diversity - economic, racial, social, geographical - but it remains intellectually segregated. It's not what conservative commentators seem to imagine - a bastion of liberal professors force-feeding radical opinions to a naive student body. Alexandra Petri

By isolating ourselves from those with whose opinions we disagree, we lose the ability to defend our beliefs. Alexandra Petri

Disagree Lose Our Those Ourselves Ability Opinions Beliefs Whose Defend

Hi, my name is Alexandra, and I'm a netaholic. Alexandra Petri

Hi Name

At Harvard, where students tend to respond to real-world celebrities with the vague sense that they could do a better job themselves, the recipe for celebrity is complex. Alexandra Petri

Better Job Sense Recipe Complex Respond Harvard Better Job Tend Could Students Celebrities Celebrity Where Themselves Vague

History contains heroes, but no one is a hero entirely, and no one is a hero for very long. Alexandra Petri

History Hero Heroes Long Entirely No-One Contains Very

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