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Adolescent Rites of Passage - Something of Monumental Importance Has Been Lost

Building Personal Strength

So far, the two most helpful books have been Crossroads: The Quest for Contemporary Rites of Passage , ed. Louise Carus Mahdi, et al (1996); and From Boys to Men: Spiritual Rites of Passage in an Indulgent Age , by Bret Stephenson (2006). Copyright 2013. I''ve been reading about traditional and modern rites of passage.

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The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of the U.S. Antitrust Movement

Harvard Business Review

As Jeffry Frieden’s book Global Capitalism recounts, under the fascist economic order the government, directly or through state-owned holding companies, largely controlled the economy. But by 2013, these figures fell “to about one-third of firms and one-tenth of total employment.” At one point during WWII, the U.S.