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  • Journalism’s Uncomfortable Marriage to Non-Monogamy

    Journalism’s Uncomfortable Marriage to Non-Monogamy0

    If the pace of change over the last few decades to reinvent marriage hasn’t left you gasping for air, take a deep breath now. Here comes the next leg in the race to deinstitutionalize the meaning of marriage: consensual non-monogamy (CNM), where two individuals ostensibly consent to open their relationship to other sexual and emotional

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  • Does Hillary Clinton Want Fact-Checking… or Censorship?

    Does Hillary Clinton Want Fact-Checking… or Censorship?0

    Recently Hillary Clinton blasted Facebook, Tweeting: Facebook’s decision to allow false information in political advertisements is appalling.   Voters are being confronted by millions of pieces of misinformation.   A world where up is down and down is up is a world where democracy can’t thrive. Other Democrats joined in. Virginia Senator Mark Warner said: “Facebook’s

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  • A Time of Deceit: Can Freedom of Speech Endure?

    A Time of Deceit: Can Freedom of Speech Endure?1

    In my teaching days, George Orwell’s Animal Farm and 1984, and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World appeared frequently on my classroom reading lists. Orwell’s vision of a totalitarian Big Brother government competed in my mind with Huxley’s dystopian view of a “happy” dictatorship controlled by technology and drugs, and I finally concluded Brave New World

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  • Why We Must Reclaim Armistice Day

    Why We Must Reclaim Armistice Day0

    Once upon a time a self-styled progressive American president who had only just won re-election on the slogan “he kept us out of war,” led the U.S. into the midst of the bloodiest worldwide conflict in history. Europeans dubbed it the Great War. Americans today remember it as World War One, and recall it as

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  • When Guests Come In, Your TV Should Go Off

    When Guests Come In, Your TV Should Go Off0

    Who leaves their TV on when hosting guests? The answer should be “no one.” Unfortunately, in real life the answer is “lots of people.” I have lost count of how often I’ve arrived at someone’s home as an invited guest while they were watching TV. Common courtesy suggests that the TV set should be switched

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  • Socialism All About Inclusivity and Kindness, These Students Say

    Socialism All About Inclusivity and Kindness, These Students Say0

    The word “socialism” has left behind its past of breadlines and beatings and has come to mean something like “kindness” for some students at Georgetown University, The Daily Signal found in campus interviews.  Many millennials would agree with the positive feelings these university students have for socialism.  According to a new YouGov survey commissioned by the Victims

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  • Is the Parenting Gig Just Too Much Work?

    Is the Parenting Gig Just Too Much Work?0

    Kate Lawler, a 39-year-old former reality TV star turned broadcaster in the UK and her 35-year-old fiancé have started a podcast for those conflicted about starting a family. It aims to break what they describe as the “taboo” about expressing a desire not to have children. A “light-hearted look at the highs and lows of parenting,” the podcast Maybe

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  • How to Make Friends as a Lonely Adult

    How to Make Friends as a Lonely Adult0

    Late this summer I met with several recent college graduates for lunch. We were chatting away when one of them fired off a question that caught me by surprise. “Annie,” this young lady asked, “what did you do to make friends?” I suddenly realized the situation these girls were in. They were on their own

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  • What Remains After the Wall’s Fall

    What Remains After the Wall’s Fall0

    Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall it is not a matter of dispute that the removal of that evil edifice was a good thing. It should be equally uncontentious that its collapse was primarily the result of the Russians themselves trying to overcome the impasse of their tragic 20th-century history. In the words

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