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  • How Shirley Temple Responded to Sexual Harassment

    How Shirley Temple Responded to Sexual Harassment0

    Shirley Temple was probably the greatest child star, not only of her generation, but of any generation. She was not just popular, she was phenomenally, outrageously popular. No one hadn’t heard of her. Of course, her popularity was at its height in the 1930s. But even for someone growing up in the 1960s, 70s and 80s, she

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  • Why Security Measures Won’t Stop School Shootings

    Why Security Measures Won’t Stop School Shootings0

    When deadly school shootings like the one that took place on Valentine’s Day in Broward County, Florida occur, often they are followed by calls for more stringent security measures. For instance, after the Jan. 23 case in which a 15-year-old student allegedly shot and killed two students and wounded 16 others at a small-town high

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  • Keynes and the Myth of Permanent Deficit Spending

    Keynes and the Myth of Permanent Deficit Spending0

    The issue of ongoing and growing governmental deficits has arisen once again, as it does from time to time in U.S politics, but those who are raising the issue most critically now are liberal Democrats, many of whom have spent most of their time until this moment advocating programs and public spending which made federal

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  • 10 Things Schools, Parents and Communities Can Do Now to Prevent School Shootings

    10 Things Schools, Parents and Communities Can Do Now to Prevent School Shootings0

    After a shooter killed 17 people at a Florida high school, many have expressed frustration at the political hand-wringing over gun control and calls for prayer. As a parent, I understand the desire for practical responses to school shootings. I also absolutely believe the government should do more to prevent such incidents. But the gun

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  • 10 Books You Need to Read Before Graduation

    10 Books You Need to Read Before Graduation0

    “If you don’t read good books, you will read bad ones,” C. S. Lewis writes. We may need to update Lewis’s claim for the twenty-first-century reader, for those who do not read good books will not necessarily read bad ones, but may—in not knowing why or what they should read—substitute books entirely with hours of

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  • Frederick Douglass Knew That Racial Identity Is No Antidote to Racial Injustice

    Frederick Douglass Knew That Racial Identity Is No Antidote to Racial Injustice0

    Frederick Douglass, the greatest of all American abolitionists, possibly the greatest American champion of the cause of equal rights, was born 200 years ago in February 1818. Perhaps the infant Douglass arrived on Feb. 14, as he liked to think, remembering a morning in his boyhood when his mother, enslaved as he was, walked miles

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