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  • God’ll Cut You Down: Johnny Cash, Cato, and Triumphant Good

    God’ll Cut You Down: Johnny Cash, Cato, and Triumphant Good2

    In Johnny Cash’s version of the gospel song “God’s Gonna Cut You Down,” the opening chorus goes this way: “You can run on for a long time Run on for a long time Run on for a long time Sooner or later, God’ll cut you down Sooner or later, God’ll cut you down” Not a

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  • God Last, Chaos First

    God Last, Chaos First0

    “Ma’am, I need you to come pick up your daughter,” I say into the phone. “She has been suspended for continual and willful defiance.” “What did she do?” comes the reply. “Yesterday, she cussed out our dean when he asked her to go to class,” I answer, glossing past the many times she had skipped

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  • Goats Are Doing Our Job, Says Union

    Goats Are Doing Our Job, Says Union0

    Great moments in public employee unionism, as recorded in the Battle Creek (Mich.) Enquirer:  A battle is brewing at Western Michigan University this summer between a group of hungry goats and a labor union.  The 400-member American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees has filed a grievance contending that the work the goats are doing in a

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  • Go Home, Harvard. You’re Drunk.

    Go Home, Harvard. You’re Drunk.0

    Yesterday, Harvard’s Graduate School of Education issued a report aimed at reforming the college admissions process. The report’s recommendations were met with much applause from media outlets, and have been endorsed by dozens of other institutions. However, after reading through them, I find myself having a bit of a Walter Sobchak moment and thinking, “Am

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  • Gnostic Bodies: Why Millennials Love Tattoos

    Gnostic Bodies: Why Millennials Love Tattoos0

    • February 19, 2016

    Here’s something a sixty-three year old man thinks about. Once, girls in their summer dresses filled the sidewalks each June. Their bare arms and shoulders would flash out of halter straps and their legs would strut past hems set well above the knees. Just to look at those girls—the bright, cotton colors of their dresses,

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  • Gluten-Sensitive Liberals? An Investigation of This Food Fad

    Gluten-Sensitive Liberals? An Investigation of This Food Fad0

    Sitting down for a family feast, do you need to gird yourself for battle in the ongoing sociopolitical culture war? In today’s hyperpartisan United States, common food products have become proxies for conservative and liberal values. Meat-eating Republicans versus quinoa-loving Democrats. Imported-beer liberals versus domestic-beer conservatives. Nothing showcases this proxy war better than the rise

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