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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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  • Liberals Have Become the New Confederates

    Liberals Have Become the New Confederates0

    “The South will rise again.”  How often did that rallying cry echo throughout a certain portion of the country following the Civil War? A lot. Actually, the South has risen in any number of very positive ways in the century and a half since that terrible, but terribly necessary, war. This is especially true in

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  • Liberals Can Be Anti-Science Too

    Liberals Can Be Anti-Science Too0

    We know the refrain: conservatives are “anti-science.” Whether the issue is evolution, climate change, stem-cell research, sex education, etc., conservatives simply reject the scientific consensus when it doesn’t fit their ideological dogmas. In some cases, there’s merit in that criticism. But it’s worth noting that liberals are by no means immune to similar thinking. Evidence

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