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Overcoming Cultural and Racial Division in the Age of Trump 0
- Culture
- December 27, 2016
Both minorities and poor and lower-middle-class whites agree race relations are getting worse, but they disagree whether the solution is to talk more or less about race. They were divided by the meaning of President-elect Donald Trump’s mantra “Make America Great Again.” Is it a promise to return to a time when American manufacturing thrived
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The Executioner’s Song: The Best Nonfiction Novel I’ve Read 0
- Culture
- December 27, 2016
My wife’s sister, we’ll call her Wendy, is a fellow book worm. She likes to pick my brain for recommendations whenever we drop in around the holidays to enjoy their hospitality on “the farm.” (They grow cranberries on a spread in central Wisconsin.) Suggesting books is a job I relish, but of late it
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The Great Equalizer 0
- Culture
- December 27, 2016
It’s odd that those who are often calling for ever greater equality in all things, are the same who are often the most vocally calling to get rid of guns. Understandably, the thinking goes that if guns are gone then we all have a great and more equal opportunity to live in safety. Perhaps. But
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5 Suspensions From 2016 That Show a Common-Sense Deficiency in Our Schools 0
- Culture
- December 27, 2016
In recent years, the rise of zero-tolerance discipline policies in schools has resulted in suspensions for … interesting incidents. 2016 was no exception. Some of the craziest incidents include: 1. The Chicken Nugget Suspension In early November, USA Today reported that a Tennessee teenager was suspended over allegedly taking too many chicken nuggets in the
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Why People Love (and Hate) Facebook 0
- Culture
- December 22, 2016
You got a problem with Facebook? Go ahead. Think of what it is. Say it loud and proud. It is probably one of the one thousand or so common complaints listed at the book-length Wikipedia page: Criticism of Facebook. It’s been heard before. A thousand times. You get the impression that this must be the
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George Orwell’s Review of Mein Kampf 0
- Culture
- December 22, 2016
The political upheavals of 2016 have left western elites dumbfounded. After all we’ve done for them, they ask, how could people reject progress? Many people in the developed world are turning toward authoritarianism, closed markets and a renewed nationalism. Can you blame the elites for being shocked? Especially when these same people were so cloistered
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