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In Defense of Hamlet: No, the Play is not Misogynistic 0
- Culture
- May 24, 2016
Shakespeare’s Hamlet is arguably the greatest play ever written. It is, however, also one of the most misunderstood. One could write a book, or perhaps a whole shelf-full of books, on the way in which the play is misconstrued by critics, or the manner in which it is sacrificed to the latest literary fads. The
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Are Homeschoolers Overqualified?0
- Culture
- May 24, 2016
In a recent Facebook post, Mike Rowe, host of the Discovery Channel’s Dirty Jobs show, shared a letter he received from an Arkansas mother. The letter ran as follows: Dear Mike My son, Spencer, decided to apply for the High Voltage Lineman program at Arkansas State University Newport. He went through the interviews just fine,
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Magazine in 2013: Socialist Venezuela an ‘Economic Miracle’0
- Economics
- May 24, 2016
A humanitarian crisis is unfolding in Venezuela. Inflation is rampant (700 percent, as of Tuesday) and there is not enough food to feed the nation’s 31 million mouths. U.S. companies are pulling out. One of the reasons the crisis in Venezuela is so tragic is that it was so predictable. Mary Anastasia O’Grady, writing in
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What is Law?0
- Economics
- May 24, 2016
In the West, while there is a very long history of debate over law in society, the assumptions upon which the law rested have often been broadly shared, having come from the synthesis of Christianity and Hellenism or, as it is often referred to, the Greco-Roman, Judeo-Christian heritage. In The Law (1850), the political and
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The Push to Give Elsa a Girlfriend 0
- Culture
- May 23, 2016
From its launch in late 2013, the Disney box office sensation Frozen has been widely read as an allegory of LGBT experience. Heroine Elsa is a princess like no other. The special power that has to be hidden is her suppressed lesbian nature and its potential to provoke a social revolution. Her passionate song, “Let It
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5 Telltale Signs That You’re a Sapiosexual 0
- Culture
- May 23, 2016
Is there anything more complex and multifaceted than human attraction? My best friend and myself have discussed in the past how different we are when it comes to the women that we find attractive. While we can usually agree on people who are conventionally beautiful, our personal tastes seem to be on entirely opposite ends of the
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