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  • The Meaning of Milo

    The Meaning of Milo0

    Milo Chronicles By Rachel Fulton Brown Published by Dangerous Books This extraordinary tome proposes a cure for our cultural illness: the resurgence of the muscular Christianity that once permeated higher education. The success of Fulton Brown’s project is far from assured, but in this essay collection she embraces the task with zealous ecstasy. The book is

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  • The Meaning of Juneteenth

    The Meaning of Juneteenth0

    Another holiday overshadowed Independence Day this year. Black Independence Day, also known as “Juneteenth,” took center stage at PBS’s annual televised Fourth of July celebration, as singer Vanessa Williams performed “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” the de facto Black National Anthem. “It’s in celebration of the wonderful opportunity that we now have to celebrate Juneteenth,”

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  • The Meaning of Jeffrey Epstein

    The Meaning of Jeffrey Epstein0

    Let’s apply Occam’s razor to Jeffrey Epstein’s untimely death. Which of these scenarios makes more sense: that a powerful billionaire who knew all about a global elite sex ring was murdered in jail by the same unaccountable forces that allowed him to evade justice for years, or that he suddenly killed himself while on suicide watch? Oh, he wasn’t on

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  • The Meaning of Holocaust: Do you know it?

    The Meaning of Holocaust: Do you know it?0

    Words are powerful. In the case of the word holocaust, we tend to think of it solely in reference to the Nazis’ attempt to eliminate all Jews in Europe in the 1930s and 1940s through mass shootings, concentration camps, and eventually gas extermination followed by mass graves and crematorium. But the word was actually in

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  • The Meaning of Ash Wednesday

    The Meaning of Ash Wednesday0

    Ash Wednesday is—oddly perhaps—a day I have long associated with bushfires, better known in the American hemisphere as wildfires. I come from the Adelaide Hills in South Australia, where on Ash Wednesday in 1983, catastrophic bushfires, driven by 70-mph winds and fueled by years of drought-ravaged eucalyptus forest, tragically claimed 28 lives. In the neighboring

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  • The MC at This State Fair Did Something Unusual

    The MC at This State Fair Did Something Unusual0

    • September 8, 2015

    Yesterday, I wrapped up my summer by attending the Minnesota State Fair. While there, I had the fun of watching a true piece of Americana: a bull riding rodeo competition. Exciting? Absolutely! The bulls were bucking, the cowboys were flying, and once the rodeo hands had to scatter, practically scaling the walls of the arena

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