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  • The Death of Civic Engagement

    The Death of Civic Engagement0

    In May, Utah Senator Mike Lee released the first report in his Social Capital Project called What We Do Together: the State of Associational Life in America. According to Lee, the state of associational life in America may be more important than we realize. As American society has changed over the past 40 years, the

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  • Privatize the Public Monuments

    Privatize the Public Monuments0

    When I was a student at the University of Colorado, I regularly walked by the Dalton Trumbo memorial fountain which, of course, was named after the communist Stalin-sympathizing novelist and screenwriter.  Once upon a time, the fountain had been simply known as “the fountain,” but around 25 years ago, it was unnecessarily renamed after a controversial person.  The reason for the

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  • ‘Worst Teachers in the System’ Set to Join Struggling Schools, Principal Says

    ‘Worst Teachers in the System’ Set to Join Struggling Schools, Principal Says0

    We’ve probably all heard some type of rumor about “rubber rooms” before. They’re the hangout of those in the Absent Teacher Reserve pool, a group of New York teachers who haven’t been assigned to an official position in a classroom, and instead remain in a paid, “on-call” type of status. This status originally came about

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  • Dear Media: Stop Putting Scare Quotes Around ‘Free Speech’

    Dear Media: Stop Putting Scare Quotes Around ‘Free Speech’0

    Irony punctuation is an age-old (and effective) literary device writers use as a sort of wink to readers. Techniques vary, but a particularly popular device is the use of “scare quotes,” which indicate to readers the word or phrase in the quotes should be viewed with skepticism. (A less subtle way of conveying this would

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  • You Can’t Stop Fascism by Killing the Next Hitler

    You Can’t Stop Fascism by Killing the Next Hitler0

    Joshua Witt sports a haircut fashionable among young men—full on the top and buzz cut on the sides. Recently after a haircut in Colorado, a man came up to Joshua and asked, “Are you one of them neo-Nazis?” As he asked, the stranger was swinging a knife and stabbed Joshua.  Nicholas Fuentes, a Boston University

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  • Kaepernick Makes Black History Smithsonian Before Clarence Thomas

    Kaepernick Makes Black History Smithsonian Before Clarence Thomas0

    Free agent NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick will be featured in a Black Lives Matter collection at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, museum curators announced this weekend. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, the nation’s longest-serving black justice, remains absent from the museum. USA Today Sports reports items belonging to Kaepernick will be incorporated into

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