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  • Mayor Suggests Fine-Free Libraries So ‘Everyone Can Afford to Check Out a Book’

    Mayor Suggests Fine-Free Libraries So ‘Everyone Can Afford to Check Out a Book’0

    Early this spring I experienced something that has probably only happened to me once before: I had an overdue library book. Given that I was the girl in college who felt frantically behind on her homework if she wasn’t a week ahead in her assignments, this was a bit distressing. But, I gritted my teeth

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  • Mayor Proposes Website Revealing the Names of Welfare Recipients

    Mayor Proposes Website Revealing the Names of Welfare Recipients0

    • September 25, 2015

    Taxpayers are increasingly calling for transparency in government spending. As a result, you can now find the salaries of each government employee, and in some states, the pension amounts they receive.   One mayor in Maine is proposing to take the public’s desire for transparency a step further: revealing welfare recipients by name.    In

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  • Mayflower Compact or Plymouth Combination?

    Mayflower Compact or Plymouth Combination?0

    On the first day of our spring semester, at the little liberal arts college at which I teach, I have for the last fourteen years had the joy of watching forty freshmen respond to the complexities and depth of a seemingly simple document, that we call, the Mayflower Compact. It really should be rather straightforward:

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  • Maybe You’re A Witch

    Maybe You’re A Witch0

    Those who seek to control and to destroy like to play with words. The great Athenian sculptor Phidias was persecuted by those who whimsically used the words “embezzlement” and “impiety.” Joan d’Arc was burnt and Galileo prosecuted via an eternally elastic concept of “heresy.” The witch hysteria relied on a protean concept of “evidence.” The

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  • Maybe the West Isn’t as Secular as We Thought

    Maybe the West Isn’t as Secular as We Thought0

    • January 15, 2016

    The West stands for secular law while Muslims want to impose a religious Sharia law, right? Not so fast, says Remi Brague, professor of philosophy at the University of Munich. In his essay “Are Non-Theocratic Regimes Possible?”, Brague argues, “The two conceptions of law that face each other [Western and Muslim] both rest on a common

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  • Maybe teachers need a blacksnake whip?

    Maybe teachers need a blacksnake whip?0

    Just as Black Lives Matter succeeded in getting a teacher put on paid leave for daring to question the wisdom of teachers not having the authority to discipline students in the St. Paul Public Schools after several cases of teachers being assaulted (learn more here), another teacher is assaulted by a group of students. This

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