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Texas Students Strap on Dildos to Protest Guns 0
- Education
- August 26, 2016
On Wednesday afternoon at the University of Texas at Austin, several students engaged in an act of protest. They strapped on dildos. The phallus-inspired action was in reaction to Texas’ new campus-carry law, which allows people with licenses to carry concealed handguns on all of state’s public university campuses. At the same time, as the
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CNN Blames U.S. Workers, Smartphones for Sluggish Economy 0
- Economics
- August 26, 2016
U.S. GDP was revised down to 1.1 percent growth in the second quarter, the Commerce Department said Friday. This comes after the U.S. economy grew by just .08 percent in the first quarter, so pundits are beginning to publicly muse on what’s wrong with the U.S. economy, which has not cracked 3 percent annual growth
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University Kindly Grants Students Two Hours of Free Speech Per Week 0
- Culture
- August 26, 2016
Via the Washington Times: A public university in Louisiana has a speech code that permits students to express their beliefs freely for two hours per week at three predetermined locations. The Northwestern State University policy requires students to apply 24-48 hours in advance before holding a public demonstration or assembly, and limits such activities to
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College Students (and Colleges) Should Listen to Obama’s Advice 0
- Culture
- August 26, 2016
In Des Moines last year, President Obama told gatherers at a town hall that one of the primary benefits of college is that it challenges the assumptions and ideas of young minds. Or at least college should do that. Look, the purpose of college is not just…to transmit skills. It’s also to widen your
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A Recommended Reading List – from C.S. Lewis 0
- Education
- August 25, 2016
Over at the blog A Pilgrim in Narnia, Brenton Dickieson has done something kind of cool. He has taken C.S. Lewis’ book An Experiment in Criticism—in which Lewis attempts to answer the question “what makes a great book?”—and listed in chronological order all of the great books that Lewis references. The list serves not only
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Failure Can Inspire Humility (If You’re Wise)0
- Culture
- August 25, 2016
Failure is like the original sin in the biblical narrative: everyone has it. Regardless of class, caste, race, or gender, we are all born to fail, we practise failure for as long as we live, and pass it on to others. Just like sin, failure can be disgraceful, shameful and embarrassing to admit. And did
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