Duckworth also faced backlash from critics who argued that her message was, at best, a series of hollow exhortations to simply try harder and, at worst, an insidious form of victim-blaming that ignored structural inequality.
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Meghan O’Gieblyn,
New Yorker,
14 Sep. 2026
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