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What School Didn’t Teach Us: You Need to Lose Control
What School Didn’t Teach Us: You Need to Lose Control
The loosening effects of alcohol can allow us to see clearly past our surface differences and disagreements to the common humanity beneath, writes Kat Rosenfield. (Photo illustration by The Free Press)
The kids need to drink alcohol, make friends, and accidentally say ‘I love you.’
By Kat Rosenfield
08.27.24 — Culture and Ideas
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What School Didn’t Teach Us: You Need to Lose Control

Welcome back to our summer series, “What School Didn’t Teach Us,” where six writers—one for each day this week (except Sunday, that’s Douglas’s day)—tell us the lessons they've learned outside of higher education. Yesterday, Julia Steinberg revealed how toiling on a farm taught her what hard work feels like. Today, Kat Rosenfield describes the joys of a…

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Kat Rosenfield

Kat Rosenfield is a culture writer at The Free Press and author of five novels, including the Edgar-nominated No One Will Miss Her. Prior to joining The Free Press, she was a reporter at MTV News and a columnist at UnHerd, where she wrote about American culture and politics. Her work has also appeared in Vulture, Playboy, The Boston Globe, and Reason, among others.

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