It feels like 1968. How do I know this? Because everyone is saying so. (If you don’t believe me, look at this.) To be fair, there is grounds for the comparison. In 1968, the country was torn by urban violence, civil unrest, and (domestic) terrorism. College campuses were hotbeds and protesting was all the rage.
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After hearing about a woman attempting to start a sex-strike in Chicago, ultimately based on the Ancient Greek play Lysistrata, to end the gun violence, we thought it would be good to dig into the numbers a little bit. We wish we hadn’t. Simply put, Chicago has a massive Black-on-Black murder problem. All of the
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In early July, Pew Research released a report on the election issues most concerning to the general public. Perhaps not surprisingly, the report showed a decided increase in concern about immigration compared to previous election years. Such increases are likely spurred by talk of “building a wall,” the huge waves of migrants that Europe
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Oddly enough, and despite the wretched news of another mass shooting right on the heels of several others, the latest reports from the Bureau of Justice Statistics indicate that gun violence is actually down. Statistically, we’re safer now than we were in the 1990s. Here are a couple highlights: Firearm-related homicides declined 39%, from 18,253
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High school English teacher Paul Barnwell made two interesting observations yesterday in The Atlantic. The first was that his students have no moral compass. Barnwell discovered this when discussing various ethical issues with his class. His students were, he found, quite oblivious to internationally and historically accepted values of moral living. But perhaps such a
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A little more than a year ago, I had the chance to talk with an extremely intelligent and talented scholar, one who had justly won a number of major awards. As we began to talk rather civilly over coffee and tea about our understandings of modern academia, this person said with some exasperation after I told
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