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  • Ted Bundy and the Banality of Evil

    Ted Bundy and the Banality of Evil0

    A Facebook friend recently asked why people have an interest in serial killers. It’s a valid question and I don’t think she was posing it rhetorically. There must be a reason why audiences are drawn to shows like Netflix’s new four-part docu-series Conversations With A Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes. It’s quite an emotionally draining commitment

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  • Are Plastic Straws the New Smoking?

    Are Plastic Straws the New Smoking?0

    Plastic straw bans are taking America by storm. Local governments across the country are jumping on the band wagon. Last week, the Washington Post shadowed a health inspector visiting D.C. restaurants to see if they were complying with the city’s new ban. The most revealing quote in the article came from Julie Lawson, director of

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  • If Global Warming Is Killing Us, Why Is Global Life Expectancy Increasing?

    If Global Warming Is Killing Us, Why Is Global Life Expectancy Increasing?0

    According to a recent report from the Centers for Disease Control (“Mortality in the United States, 2017“), “Life expectancy for the U.S. population declined to 78.6 years in 2017.” If accurate, a decline in life expectancy is a cause for concern because, since the mid nineteenth century, we’ve come to expect life expectancy in Europe

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  • The Rise and Fall of the American Girl Doll Company?

    The Rise and Fall of the American Girl Doll Company?0

    The other day the American Girl doll store at Minnesota’s Mall of America announced it would be closing its doors. It’s been years since I walked through the store looking for gifts for some young relatives; nevertheless, I still felt a twinge of sadness over the news. Even more disheartening, however, was the reason why

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  • 9 Big Questions About Democratic Socialism

    9 Big Questions About Democratic Socialism0

    Democratic socialism is hot in the United States right now. Both the American media and young people seem to be enamored of the thought of steeply progressive, redistributive tax rates designed to achieve some vision of justice. As with most public policy ideas, we tend to get pretty far down the road before we ask

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  • Modern Men in the City

    Modern Men in the City0

    What does it mean to be masculine? It’s a question I posed recently to a young man at a coffee shop—let’s call him “Adam.” Adam, about 20, was intensely fixated on a Green Lantern graphic novel at the time. I noticed the book before I noticed Adam. It was a thick black hard covered book furnishing fleshed

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