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Guest Essay

By Mark Edmundson

Mr. Edmundson is a professor at the University of Virginia and the author, most recently, of “The Age of Guilt: The Super-Ego in the Online World.”

Most of my students at the University of Virginia love going home for the holidays. They cherish their immediate families. But some do not look forward to holiday dinner with the extended family.

My students are mostly liberals (no surprise) and they do not relish the thought of a sit-down encounter........

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