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  • Slavery is Still With Us, and It’s More Widespread and Profitable than Ever

    Slavery is Still With Us, and It’s More Widespread and Profitable than Ever0

    A few years ago I went to a lecture by the Right Honourable The Baroness Cox, of Queensbury. She spoke about her charitable work in many of the most dangerous areas of the world and in particular about the redeeming of slaves in Sudan. What struck me at the time was her comment that not only

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  • Tony Dungy Speaks Out on NFL Players Kneeling During National Anthem

    Tony Dungy Speaks Out on NFL Players Kneeling During National Anthem0

    Tony Dungy was a guest on ESPN’s “Mike and Mike” on Thursday morning. During his visit, the NFL Hall of Fame football coach was asked about the recent practice of players kneeling during the national anthem as a form of social protest, which began last year with former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick. Kaepernick,

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  • Author: We’re Now Living in an ‘Age of Anger’

    Author: We’re Now Living in an ‘Age of Anger’0

    According to the title of Pankaj Mishra’s latest book, we are now living in an “Age of Anger.” He writes: “[T]he current conflagration [in the world] has brought to the surface what Friedrich Nietzsche called ‘ressentiment’—‘a whole tremulous realm of subterranean revenge, inexhaustible and insatiable in outbursts… what Hannah Arendt described as a ‘tremendous increase

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  • Should Students Be on a First-Name Basis with Their Professors?

    Should Students Be on a First-Name Basis with Their Professors?0

    As the new school year quickly approaches, college freshmen will soon learn the proper way to address their new instructors. No longer are the go-to titles of “Mr.” and “Ms.” commonly used like they are for K-12 teachers; rather, “Professor,” “Doctor,” and first names are thrown in. The pertinent question today asks whether it’s okay

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  • Why Do Arranged Marriages Actually Seem to Last?

    Why Do Arranged Marriages Actually Seem to Last?0

    • August 17, 2017

    It was a match made… in the Mall of America, of all places. Twenty years ago, I remember reading the story of David Weinlick and Elizabeth Runze in my local paper. They barely knew each other, but were married in a showcase wedding at the Mall of America. The groom, having long been harassed by

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  • Kentucky Mayor Issues Open Invitation to Racists Everywhere

    Kentucky Mayor Issues Open Invitation to Racists Everywhere0

    Okay, so the last time someone took down a Confederate monument, hundreds of racists showed up and precipitated a violent clash with anti-racist demonstrators, some of whom unwisely brought weapons themselves. The result was someone dying. So you’re the major of an arguably Southern town—Lexington, in my home state of Kentucky—and what do you do? You

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