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  • 6 Facts about Caesar’s Assassination a Culturally-Literate Person Should Know

    6 Facts about Caesar’s Assassination a Culturally-Literate Person Should Know0

    Today is the Ides of March, on which date Julius Caesar was assassinated over 2,000 years ago. Reading through at least one of the historical accounts of Julius Caesar’s assassination used to be a staple of American education, but not so anymore. As such, details of his assassination which were previously common knowledge are now

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  • 15 Things Christ Said That Weren’t Nice

    15 Things Christ Said That Weren’t Nice0

    “I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” Supposedly that comment came from Mahatma Ghandi. The sentiments behind it are expressed quite a bit in our modern culture in a variety of ways. According to the popular narrative, Christ was tolerant and loving while Christians are

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  • Would Mutual Aid Societies Revive Healthcare AND Community?

    Would Mutual Aid Societies Revive Healthcare AND Community?0

    It’s been six years this month since the Affordable Care Act was signed into law. Unfortunately for many Americans, the Affordable Care Act has turned out to be anything but affordable, and many are seeing their premiums and monthly payments continue an upward climb. Due to rising costs and qualms over government health insurance, increasing

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  • The Intolerant Student Left

    The Intolerant Student Left0

    Increasingly, Americans have witnessed the suppression of speech on college campus not by conservatives or white racists, but rather by individuals representing the very groups who most often call for tolerance and accuse others of hate. The spread of censorship and intolerance isn’t limited to America. Britain is seeing a wave of intolerance sweep through

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  • The Best and Worst Story you will Read Today

    The Best and Worst Story you will Read Today0

    An older and troubling yet uplifting inside story of an abandoned assisted living home comes from NPR’s StoryCorps: “When an assisted living home in California shut down last fall, many of its residents were left behind, with nowhere to go. The staff at the Valley Springs Manor left when they stopped getting paid — except

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  • Professor: Children’s Imaginations Are Being Destroyed

    Professor: Children’s Imaginations Are Being Destroyed0

    Driving by a house with several children romping around in the front yard wrestling one another or running around in absurd dress-up costumes almost never fails to make me smile. Unfortunately, those smiles are few and far between because this scene now rarely occurs. Where has the imagination of children gone? Providence College professor Anthony

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  • It’s Scary What Americans Now Label as ‘Religious Extremism’

    It’s Scary What Americans Now Label as ‘Religious Extremism’0

    • March 14, 2016

    Unsurprisingly, most Americans think of ISIS’ killing of people for refusing to convert to Islam as a case of “religious extremism.” What is surprising is some of the other things that Americans now label as “religious extremism.” A story this week in The Atlantic by Jonathan Merritt focuses on the pertinent results of a poll

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  • Is Comfort Dulling Americans’ Minds?

    Is Comfort Dulling Americans’ Minds?0

    Ancient Greece represents a time of almost unparalleled intellectual creativity in world history. It had Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Democritus, Solon, Herodotus, Archimedes, and Hippocrates.   But according to many authors, what Ancient Greece did not have during its Golden Age was an obsession with comfort. And this fact may have played a large role in

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  • How the Clock Changed the World

    How the Clock Changed the World2

    When people reflect on how technology has changed our lives, they usually think about the car, the television, or the computer. But according to historian and philosopher Lewis Mumford, it’s really the invention of the mechanical clock that changed everything. In his 1934 classic Technics and Civilization, Mumford laid out a fascinating argument why “the

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