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  • Justifying Racism Through Language

    Justifying Racism Through Language0

    The best way to grasp how sociology has managed to make color-blind racism (CBR) seem believable is to study its Newspeak (to continue the Orwell theme). Whiteness To many modern sociologists, color blindness is a racist weapon that works, somehow, through whiteness, a scheme of thought invisible to most whites, but revealed by CBR sociology. Whiteness

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  • A Brief History of Russia Meddling in Other People’s Elections

    A Brief History of Russia Meddling in Other People’s Elections0

    U.S. Special counsel Robert Mueller on Feb. 16 indicted Russian individuals and entities for interference in the U.S. presidential election. This is not a one-off act of Russian interference. In the previous nine years, Russia has invaded its neighbor Georgia, annexed the Ukrainian province of Crimea and supported rebels in Eastern Ukraine. As a historian

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  • Why California Cities Are Becoming Unlivable

    Why California Cities Are Becoming Unlivable0

    In July, the mayor of San Francisco frankly stated that poverty in the city is so bad, that “there is more feces on the sidewalks than I’ve ever seen.” And it’s not just her – the local NBC investigative unit found a “dangerous mix of drug needles, garbage, and feces throughout downtown San Francisco.” While

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  • The Affective Fallacy: Understanding How Your Feelings Can Make You Dumb

    The Affective Fallacy: Understanding How Your Feelings Can Make You Dumb0

    The NBC show Friday Night Lights is about high school football in a small Texas community. High-school students are taking part in a class discussion when the brash star halfback, Brian “Smash” Williams crudely argues that monogamy is unnatural for a male. The teacher is puzzled by Smash’s statement. A female friend and classmate, Waverly,

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  • Politics Is Beginning to Consume Our World. That’s Bad.

    Politics Is Beginning to Consume Our World. That’s Bad.0

    I’m not the sharpest knife in the drawer. Even after I’d earned my Ph.D. degree, my dad used to look at me with a twinkle in his eye and tell me, “Son, the trouble with you is that you don’t know nothing.” And he was right in regard to knowing worthwhile, practical things and having

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  • How ‘The Abolition of Man’ Destroys the Idols of the Postmodern Age

    How ‘The Abolition of Man’ Destroys the Idols of the Postmodern Age1

    No one could rightly accuse C.S. Lewis, who was raised as a Northern Protestant Irishman, of betraying his adopted home of England. During the Great War, Lewis had—though exempt from any draft—volunteered to serve as an officer in the British Army. When he arrived in the trenches of that horrendous war, now a century gone

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