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  • U. of New Hampshire Students Actually Created a ‘Bias-Free Language Guide’

    U. of New Hampshire Students Actually Created a ‘Bias-Free Language Guide’0

    Over the weekend I stumbled on an article in The Harvard Crimson that referenced the University of New Hampshire’s “Bias-Free Language Guide.” I was amused if not terribly surprised to hear that such a thing existed, but my initial searches failed to turn up the document. It turns out that the University of New Hampshire

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  • Tyrion Lannister for Supreme Court!

    Tyrion Lannister for Supreme Court!0

    The routine is old. We’ve seen it before. A television host holds a mic in front of a passerby who willfully displays how clueless he or she is about general knowledge. It was funny when Leno was doing it 20 years ago. And I found Jimmy Kimmel’s recent “Lie Witness News” segment that aired last

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  • Tyler Perry Responds to Charge His New Show is ‘Too White’

    Tyler Perry Responds to Charge His New Show is ‘Too White’0

    Director Tyler Perry has a new show that that debuted on TLC last night, but what caught most people’s attention is the color of many cast members. Perry, BET reports, is taking heat for the number of white actors in the show, which is called Tyler Perry’s Too Close to Home. Unfortunately, the show is

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  • Two-Parent Households at an All-Time Low

    Two-Parent Households at an All-Time Low0

    In addition to being viewed as a season of religious devotion, Christmas has also become a time of family traditions and togetherness.  But will those traditions and togetherness continue if the American family disappears? According to the Pew Research Center’s latest report, there has been a 20 percentage point drop in two-parent families in the

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  • Two Ways Our World Resembles ‘1984’

    Two Ways Our World Resembles ‘1984’0

    When I took 1984 with me on vacation recently, I didn’t expect to read it. Unlike the two other books with me—Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life and Matt Ridley’s The Rational Optimist—I had already read Orwell’s classic work. Or had I? It had been at least 25 years. Most of what I remembered seemed

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  • Two Ways of Dying

    Two Ways of Dying0

    Editor’s note: The world recently lost philosopher and humanitarian Jean Vanier. Among Vanier’s many accomplishments is the founding of L’Arche, an organization and community which fostered the dignity and personhood of disabled individuals through personal relationships with “non-disabled peers.” One of the individuals involved in L’Arche was Jim Skerl, the man featured in the piece

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