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  • Lies, Bias, and Twisted Facts: MSNBC and Media Bias

    Lies, Bias, and Twisted Facts: MSNBC and Media Bias0

    Over my decades as a writer, I’ve seen the two faces of the media. This past April, an editor from The Epoch Times (ET) sent me an email telling me she had enjoyed my articles on Intellectual Takeout and wondered if I might talk to her about writing for ET. When we spoke by phone,

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  • Libraries: Not Just For Reading Anymore

    Libraries: Not Just For Reading Anymore0

    • February 11, 2016

    The days of the library being only for bookworms are long gone. Libraries are branching out (pun intended). And, according to a new piece for The Atlantic, their efforts are making them into community hubs: “There are three areas where libraries function as vibrant centers of America’s towns: technology, education, and community.” The Center for

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  • Libraries: Filling the Community and… Skills Void?

    Libraries: Filling the Community and… Skills Void?0

    • September 15, 2015

    On Monday, The New York Times ran a piece discussing the evolving nature of libraries. “Libraries aren’t just for books, or even e-books, anymore. They are for checking out cake pans (North Haven, Conn.), snowshoes (Biddeford, Me.), telescopes and microscopes (Ann Arbor, Mich.), American Girl dolls (Lewiston, Me.), fishing rods (Grand Rapids, Minn.), Frisbees and

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  • Liberty is Meaningless without Responsibility

    Liberty is Meaningless without Responsibility1

    What does a free society look like to you? Is it an anarcho-capitalist utopia where individuals are free to shoot fully-automatic AK-47s at their 1040 EZs in their private marijuana fields? Is it a harmonious society free from bureaucratic central planning, where people freely trade and engage in commerce? Is it your own apartment, with

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  • Liberty Depends on ‘Civil Society’

    Liberty Depends on ‘Civil Society’0

    Among the relatively few college students exposed to it, the concept of “civil society” often puts them to sleep. It’s not exciting for people to hear that “civil society” refers to all those “mediating institutions” (another snoozer) between government and the individual, such as family, church, voluntary associations, and charitable organizations. American political debates today

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  • Liberation Theology: How Competing Claims of Being on God’s Side Are Testing Our Social Order

    Liberation Theology: How Competing Claims of Being on God’s Side Are Testing Our Social Order0

    Religion is a vital source for change, but it does not yield easily to what the political philosopher John Rawls in 1997 called the ‘public reason’ that enables liberal democracies. In the late 1960s, for example, a new group of radicals, known as liberation theologians, challenged the accommodation of religion to an unjust society. The

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