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  • When Feeding the Homeless Becomes a Crime

    When Feeding the Homeless Becomes a Crime0

    More than a dozen people were recently arrested in El Cajon, California. Their crime? They were feeding the homeless. “The arrests come in the wake of a newly enacted city ordinance banning people from feeding the homeless in public,” a local news station reported. The group was aware of the ordinance, the report said, but

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  • The Suffering of Surrogacy: A Veteran Feminist Spells It Out

    The Suffering of Surrogacy: A Veteran Feminist Spells It Out0

    What do Jimmy Fallon, Lucy Liu, Sarah Jessica Parker, Neil Patrick Harris, and Ricky Martin have in common? They all bought babies via surrogacy. You might have seen them in glossy women’s magazines. Of course the women who bore the babies are nowhere to be seen; they would have received but a small cut of

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  • Why MLK’s Vision of Love as a Moral Imperative Still Matters

    Why MLK’s Vision of Love as a Moral Imperative Still Matters0

    2017 was a year of increased conflict in the United States. Many diverse communities were forced to confront a range of challenges related to anti-Semitism, racism, homophobia and anti-immigrant feelings. These challenges strike at the heart of what it means to live in a multicultural, democratic society. Yet, it is not the first time America

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  • The Subtle ‘Tyranny’ of Regulatory Overlords

    The Subtle ‘Tyranny’ of Regulatory Overlords0

    If you’re a business owner, you quickly learn the pains of regulation and how it impacts your ability to survive and thrive. Author and theologian C.S. Lewis framed the topic best when he said,   “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would

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  • Notre Dame Prof Calls Higher Ed Today ‘Bullshit’

    Notre Dame Prof Calls Higher Ed Today ‘Bullshit’0

    Every week it seems like we hear from a professor who has become disillusioned with the higher education system. The latest one is Christian Smith, professor of sociology at the University of Notre Dame. Last week, his jeremiad against the modern university appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education. Smith’s beginning two paragraphs set the

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  • Why One Inner City College is Bringing Back Plato

    Why One Inner City College is Bringing Back Plato0

    If we’ve learned anything in recent months, it is that the race, gender, or orientation of an author matters far more than the content of his or her book. As a result, many colleges are abandoning the works of literature which have long laid the foundation of western civilization. Being “woke” more often than not

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