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Sophie Cunningham and the Philosophical Reason Bodies Matter
- Culture, Entertainment, Featured, Philosophy
- August 25, 2026






This is the way the world endsNot with a bang but a whimper. ? T.S. Eliot One strange trait of the die hard NeverTrump Republicans and progressives is their charge that Donald Trump poses an existential threat to democracy. Trump, as is his wont, says a lot of outrageous and weird things.
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During my senior year in college, my theatre class read Spinning Into Butter by Rebecca Gilman. The plot portrays the interactions between students and the Dean of a privileged liberal arts school in Vermont. Interactions with two students in particular take center stage, the one an African American who is thought to be the victim
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Recently I watched my two-and-a-half-year-old granddaughter at play. She toddled up and down the side porch, stopping to eat a bite of the apple slice her mother had given her, fingering some Play-Mobile figurines, pausing to gaze out across the small side yard. She’s a bright kid with a large vocabulary, compliments of her seven
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For 19 years, I was a master of time. Down to the minute, I controlled time for others and used it to meet my and others’ ends, irrespective of the desires of those in front of me. In short, I was a public-school teacher, and controlling time was my talent. Although I and other adults
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NPR reports that the New York Public Library has released 180,000 public domain items as high resolution downloads available for free. This means that the public now has unprecedented access to historical images in high quality: “The documents include literary manuscripts, Farm Security Administration photographs, sheet music, papers from Founding Fathers, WPA-era art by African-American
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On his blog A Pilgrim in Narnia, Brenton Dickieson tells us that C.S. Lewis in his Studies in Words defined “verbicide” as the “murder of words.” Dickieson adds that “Lewis has some similar concerns as George Orwell in his ‘Politics and the English Language.’ Words can be politicized or bent into the service of those
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