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  • What’s a Luddite? An Expert on Technology and Society Explains

    What’s a Luddite? An Expert on Technology and Society Explains0

    The term “Luddite” emerged in early 1800s England. At the time there was a thriving textile industry that depended on manual knitting frames and a skilled workforce to create cloth and garments out of cotton and wool. But as the Industrial Revolution gathered momentum, steam-powered mills threatened the livelihood of thousands of artisanal textile workers.

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  • What’s a Girl to Do When a Powerful Man Asks Her to Flirt?

    What’s a Girl to Do When a Powerful Man Asks Her to Flirt?0

    We are so used to the idea that, with a college degree and a packet of contraceptive pills, women are invincible, we are still trying to get our 21st century heads around the #MeToo phenomenon. Over the past year, countless women working in a variety of professions around the world have revealed that the price of

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  • What’s Wrong with the Right, the Left, AND the Center

    What’s Wrong with the Right, the Left, AND the Center0

    I consider myself politically homeless, and have for a while now.   I started out as a ‘campus leftist’ or ‘social justice warrior’, knee-deep in the works of Marx and Marcuse, Horkheimer and Habermas.   But life as an expat in China changed my outlook somewhat. Witnessing the marriage between a communist state and its

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  • What’s the Problem with ‘Reparations’?

    What’s the Problem with ‘Reparations’?0

    As the issue of reparations for victims of slavery rages within the Democratic party, and on cable news stations, we encounter a common problem: virtually no one is addressing the specifics of how such a reparations effort would be administered. Who would receive these reparations payments? Who would pay them? How would guilt and victimhood be determined?

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  • What’s the Greater Threat?

    What’s the Greater Threat?0

    With the news that the men behind the November 13th Paris attacks were able to enter Europe because of the Syrian refugee crisis, Americans are concerned about falling into the same situation. Many wonder, will the acceptance of Syrian refugees open up the U.S. to more terrorist attacks? Will letting Syrian refugees in open the floodgates

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  • What’s the Best Way to Deal with a ‘Political Animal’?

    What’s the Best Way to Deal with a ‘Political Animal’?0

    G. K. Chesterton was that rarest of political animals. He was a fellow of firm views and well decided certainties. But he was also someone who always treated those of differing views and certainties with fairness and kindness. (We could use many more of his type these days, couldn’t we?) How did Chesterton manage to

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