Once upon a time, in the flourishing cultural centers of medieval Paris, Oxford, and Bologna, an institution emerged dedicated to the pursuit of truth: the university. This institution evolved from schools called studia generalia, which were attempts to educate monks and clerks beyond what they had received at cathedral or monastic schools. The universities were self-governing, often
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Laugh if you want, but I enjoy the Netflix series Cobra Kai. While I rooted for Daniel in the original ’80s movie, my favorite character is now Daniel’s rival Johnny Lawrence. My kids saw enough similarities between Johnny and me to buy an Eagle Fang Karate shirt for my birthday. I assume it’s because we share
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For many on the right, the enemy of their enemy is their friend. A recent example of this is the now-infamous Sydney Sweeney jeans ad. Last week, left-wing “experts” made a serious attempt to smear the jeans brand American Eagle as fascist for daring to feature blonde bombshell Sydney Sweeney. The advertisement features Sweeney making cheeky
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I’ve had a nagging feeling in recent months that I’m a bit of a dinosaur in a certain area of fashion. The reason? I still wear a wristwatch. By wristwatch, I don’t mean a minicomputer screen strapped above my hand from which I get texts and monitor my heartbeat and blood pressure (or whatever else
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Can it be true? Can a blue jeans advertisement perform like a magician’s top hat, producing irony, racism, sex appeal, body positivity, Nazism, and eugenics all at the same time? Apparently so. Recently, American Eagle jeans featured actress Sydney Sweeney in an ad that caused some heads to explode among our ever vigilant supervisors of
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A new adaptation of the H. G. Wells classic “War of the Worlds” hit Amazon Prime this week – and it is a doozy. Already at #2 on the Amazon charts, this version boasts a unique perspective. That perspective? A computer monitor. The entire film is presented as if the audience is watching a recording of a single screen,
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