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 This is a re-broadcast. The episode originally ran in October 2018.  Do your days seem like a ...

 For thousands of years, the study of rhetoric was a fundamental part of a man's education. ...

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 We've all asked "what if" questions about our life: What if I had majored in art instead of business? ...

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 On the surface, it can feel like we've made a lot of technological, economic, and cultural progress ...

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