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TOS Weekly - Growing Up with Jane Austen

The new BBC miniseries Miss Austen (based on the novel by Gil Hornby) commemorates the 250th anniversary of this remarkable author’s birth.

Thomas Walker-Werth

Mar 27, 2025

In today’s TOS Weekly:

Creating and Climbing Your Ladder of Happiness
Navigating Today’s Seductive and Destructive Language
Aristotle Versus Religion
Reviewed: Miss Austen, adapted by Andrea Gibb
Walter Williams: Intransigent Individualist

Enjoy!

Thomas Walker-Werth
Managing Editor

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Creating and Climbing Your Ladder of Happiness

The Objective Standard

Mar 27

Creating and Climbing Your Ladder of Happiness

How can you decide what to make of your life? How can you choose among the countless alternatives? And, when you do decide, what must you do to follow through and build a life you love?

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Philosophy

Navigating Today’s Seductive and Destructive Language (A Study of Package-Deals and Anti-Concepts)

Craig Biddle

May 24, 2023

Navigating Today’s Seductive and Destructive Language (A Study of Package-Deals and Anti-Concepts)

If we know the referents of the terms we use, then we know what we are thinking and talking about when we use them. If we don’t, we don’t.

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Politics & Rights

Aristotle Versus Religion

February 21, 2014

Careful observation of history reveals two dramatically different approaches to life on Earth.

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Arts & Culture

Miss Austen, Adapted by Andrea Gibb

Angelica Walker-Werth

Mar 27

What would it have been like to grow up with Jane Austen?

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Politics & Rights

Walter Williams: Intransigent Individualist

February 26, 2021

Walter Williams (born March 31, 1936) defended free markets, championed individualism, and fought to liberate black people and other minorities from destructive ideas and policies.

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