Aristophanes, the Ancient Greek playwright, created the play Lysistrata around 400 B.C. Set against the backdrop of the Peloponnesian War between Sparta and Athens, it is the story of a woman who sets out to end the violence by starting a sex strike. According to the news this week, a woman is now setting out
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The best way to make headlines is to swim upstream against conventional wisdom. Increasingly, however, going against conventional wisdom seems to mean a return to traditional ideas. Such is the case with actress Kirsten Dunst. According to a recent interview in Net-A-Porter fashion magazine, Dunst isn’t necessarily on board with the “find-a-feminist-boyfriend” trend. Instead, Ms.
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In comparable terms, the entire population of the United States has watched DJ Snake’s and Lil Jon’s “Turn Down for What” music video on YouTube. In case you missed it, a man seems to have some sort of erectile dysfunction that causes him to hump everything in sight with such amazing power that he even
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Each year, Oxford Dictionaries selects one “Word of the Year” that “best reflect[s] the ethos, mood, and preoccupations” of a given year. Yesterday, Oxford announced that its selection for 2015 wasn’t a word; it was an emoji. More specifically, this emoji: Oxford justified its selection by pointing out that “Emojis are no longer the preserve of
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It’s well-accepted fact that a good teacher is one of the most important components of a child’s education. And as some might assume, behind every good teacher is a good teachers union. But while unions might be beneficial for teachers, new evidence suggests they are not beneficial for students. Such a conclusion was reached
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In his Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine, John Henry Newman famously listed 7 tests (“notes”) of a truly living and developing idea. His third test was the “Power of Assimilation,” which he described as follows: “[D]octrines and views which relate to man are not placed in a void, but in the crowded world,
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