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  • Amy Schumer’s Crudity is Boring, Not Clever

    Amy Schumer’s Crudity is Boring, Not Clever0

    In the last several years, comedienne Amy Schumer has burst on the national scene and enjoyed a decent amount of success. Like many of today’s comedians, Schumer’s humor capitalizes upon crass and crude subjects, which the Los Angeles Times recently described in the following way: “Schumer’s renown for obliterating narrow ideas about female sexuality, double

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  • Amy Schumer: Unlikely but Persuasive Defender of Marriage

    Amy Schumer: Unlikely but Persuasive Defender of Marriage0

    Amy Schumer seems like an unlikely critic of the sexual revolution. But in her new memoir, The Girl With the Lower Back Tattoo, the often ribald comedian writes of her parents’ marriages (three apiece) and divorces in a way that reads like fodder for a Dr. Laura book about family values. “I’ve had UTIs that lasted

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  • Amy Coney Barrett Exposes Society’s Double Standard on Family Size

    Amy Coney Barrett Exposes Society’s Double Standard on Family Size0

    Amy Coney Barrett, President Trump’s nominee to the supreme court, has seven children. Unless you have been living under a rock, you already knew that. All the media coverage of her nomination, which was announced on September 26, devoted extensive attention to this fact. If a poll were to be taken, no doubt more Americans would

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  • Amy Coney Barrett and Our Topsy-Turvy Culture

    Amy Coney Barrett and Our Topsy-Turvy Culture0

    In 2017, the media reported that Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus was closing after a run of 146 years. I beg to disagree. The circus moved its three rings, lion tamers, and clowns to Capitol Hill, and the latest act is about to begin. In his essay “Democrats Take Aim At Amy Coney Barrett,”

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  • Among the Ruins of Carthage

    Among the Ruins of Carthage0

    • July 24, 2015

    Nowhere are Roman ruins thicker than in Tunisia. For this, from the days when Scipio took Punic Carthage until the Vandals broke into the city, was the Province of Africa, wondrously rich and populous. St. Augustine was born in Carthage—of a patrician family—and died in neighboring Hippo, when the Vandals were at the gates.   I

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  • Amish Uber Shows that Entrepreneurship is Contagious

    Amish Uber Shows that Entrepreneurship is Contagious0

    The ridesharing economy seems to know no bounds. From bike-sharing to platforms that pair riders with drivers who accept cryptocurrency to the most recent trend of motorized scooters, there seems to be something for everyone. But now, this service has entered a whole new market and is being extended to include even those who are religiously

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