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  • Is It Important to Support Small Businesses?

    Is It Important to Support Small Businesses?0

    It’s difficult not to feel a degree of sympathy for those arrested at the “Democracy Spring” demonstration on Capitol Hill. They are, after all, highlighting the gross injustice at the heart of our present political and economic system. Take, for example, the fact that, between 2007 and 2012, the two hundred most politically active corporations

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  • Does Abandoning Community Lead to Inequality?

    Does Abandoning Community Lead to Inequality?0

    For years the people in my neighborhood expressed a reserved politeness toward one another. But last year, that politeness exploded into downright camaraderie. The reason? The city council decided to railroad a project through that the young and old, rich and poor, liberal and conservative commonly despise. P.S. A common enemy unites even the oldest

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  • When You Tell a Woman to Keep Her Clothes On, Are You Slut-Shaming?

    When You Tell a Woman to Keep Her Clothes On, Are You Slut-Shaming?0

    In case you missed it amidst the chaos of the upcoming presidential election, there’s an equally epic war raging on social media about naked photos, slut shaming, and feminism. Kim Kardashian keeps putting on a Twitter strip show, posting fully or partially nude photos of herself, which has led to vocal backlash and critical comments

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  • Has Porn Really Become a ‘Public Health Crisis’?

    Has Porn Really Become a ‘Public Health Crisis’?0

    The Washington Post ran a blaring headline last week: IS PORN IMMORAL? THAT DOESN’T MATTER: IT’S A PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS. Gail Dines, a professor of sociology at Boston’s Wheelock College, said the science is settled: After 40 years of peer-reviewed research, scholars can say with confidence that porn is an industrial product that shapes how

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  • What the Poor Need the Most?

    What the Poor Need the Most?0

    At times the works of Georges Bernanos may seem quite dark and penetrating. There is a brutal realism to his writings that acts as a mirror for the reader to pierce his own soul, to reflect upon his own evil and good. In The Diary of a Country Priest (1937), Bernanos follows the life of

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  • What Did Nietzsche Mean by ‘God is Dead’?

    What Did Nietzsche Mean by ‘God is Dead’?1

    Last week marked the 50th anniversary of one of the most famous magazine covers ever. In The Gay Science (1882), Friedrich Nietzsche’s character of the madman had proclaimed, “God is dead.” The Time cover for April 8, 1966, turned this proclamation into a provocative question for a world where religious practice was waning: But, though

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