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The Washington Post ran a blaring headline last week: IS PORN IMMORAL? THAT DOESN’T MATTER: IT’S A PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS. Gail Dines, a professor of sociology at Boston’s Wheelock College, said the science is settled: After 40 years of peer-reviewed research, scholars can say with confidence that porn is an industrial product that shapes how
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“April is the cruellest month,” notes T. S. Eliot in his poem, “The Waste Land.” For most of us, however, April brings pleasures and celebrations. Where I live, the forsythias have exploded, causing my young granddaughter to wonder why all the bushes were turning yellow. Easter and Passover are just around the corner, my grandchildren, heartier
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Respect for politicians of either party continues to decline with each passing month. Of course, their performances on cable news and talk radio shows don’t help, for we see them in real time, their flaws and foibles continuously on display. In a 1975 interview on Firing Line, British journalist Malcolm Muggeridge speculated that if the highly esteemed
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In bygone days, Hollywood was a bastion of original storytelling and imagination. The industry produced new tales that inspired us and transported us into another realm. But those days are long over, and we, the audience, have no choice but to endure the production of stale remakes and banal retellings of old narratives. Hollywood production
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According to The New York Times, manners are increasingly falling by the wayside, and parents are beginning to take notice. So much so, that many parents are sending their children – boys in particular – to etiquette classes which teach “old-fashioned civility, even chivalry.” Classes are well-received by both parents and children, but according to
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It’s a safe guess that readers will not see this story on Facebook’s trending news section, but it’s still worth sharing. Gizmodo, a popular tech blog, reports that former Facebook employees admitted that “Facebook workers routinely suppressed news stories of interest to conservative readers from the social network’s influential ‘trending’ news section.” Among the
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