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  • Sanders Exits Stage Left, but His Ideas Remain

    Sanders Exits Stage Left, but His Ideas Remain2

    Bernie is finally out. In the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, it was sometimes easy to forget that Bernie Sanders was still in, or that there was a Democratic Party primary race in the works at all. Following his withdrawal from the race earlier Wednesday, Bernie Sanders fans took to Twitter, using the hashtag #NotMeUs

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  • Christ and the Nazi Officer

    Christ and the Nazi Officer0

    Christians, we often hear, are “so heavenly minded that they’re no earthly good.”  To be sure, there is some validity to this criticism. Plenty of Christians allow their faith in divine providence to override their responsibility to care for the world and for their neighbor. The way in which many Christians automatically dismiss all ecological concerns as

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  • WHO Reverses Course, Endorses Masks to Fight COVID-19

    WHO Reverses Course, Endorses Masks to Fight COVID-190

    The World Health Organization now supports the public wearing of masks to prevent the spread of coronavirus. That’s a reversal of its earlier position, reports the South China Morning Post: The World Health Organisation says it supports government initiatives that require or encourage the public wearing of masks, marking a major shift from previous advice amid

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  • The Religious Liberty Disappearing Act

    The Religious Liberty Disappearing Act0

    Easter is coming. We are at the conclusion of Lent, a time of sacrifice and spiritual renewal for Catholics. During Lent, we imitate Jesus’ fasting in the desert. Our small self-denial is rightly understood not as an exercise in masochism, but as a form of spiritual food. Sadly, we cannot go to Mass and celebrate

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  • Redefining Gender Roles One Quarantine at a Time

    Redefining Gender Roles One Quarantine at a Time0

    The coronavirus is going to send women back to the kitchen. At least that is what The Atlantic believes. Writer Helen Lewis argues that the pandemic is a “disaster for feminism.”  Lewis starts by noting, “A pandemic magnifies all existing inequalities.” That’s certainly true, but from there, she veers into the assertion that this particularly affects women.  Women, Lewis believes,

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  • Finding Rest in an Anxious Society

    Finding Rest in an Anxious Society0

    Anxiety. Do you feel it? I’m not going to lie: I have. I also have a hunch that many others have as well, or at least will soon. Being cooped up, life as we knew it gone, facing uncertainties on every side – it’s no wonder the anxiety juices are flowing at top speed. But

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  • Beware: Our New Online Culture Is a Feast for Mass Surveillance

    Beware: Our New Online Culture Is a Feast for Mass Surveillance0

    The rapid spread of COVID-19 has caused network traffic to surge as Internet users resort to video conferencing to work remotely. For example, last December online meeting provider Zoom hosted roughly 10 million participants. In March this statistic jumped to 200 million. The public’s stampede to the cloud is an auspicious development for the intelligence

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  • Social Distancing Tips From Robinson Crusoe

    Social Distancing Tips From Robinson Crusoe0

    He survived the last great plague in London and the city’s Great Fire. He was imprisoned and persecuted for his religious and political views. There was no happy ending for the journalist Daniel Defoe, author of “A Journal of a Plague Year.” When he died in 1731, he was mired in debt and hiding from

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  • School’s Out and It’s Time to Revamp Education

    School’s Out and It’s Time to Revamp Education0

    This past weekend, I watched the original version of Red Dawn, the movie about a joint Soviet, Cuban, and Nicaraguan invasion of the United States. A group of teenagers escape to the mountains and resist these invaders. After their first skirmish in which they kill three Russian soldiers, a girl seated by the fire says, “Things

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