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  • Nike Boycott Over Kaepernick Ads Demonstrates Yearning for Patriotism

    Nike Boycott Over Kaepernick Ads Demonstrates Yearning for Patriotism0

    • September 5, 2018

    The National Football League just can’t escape the ugly politics of 2018. One of the world’s largest sports apparel companies is now embracing the man who started it all, and fans aren’t happy about it. Nike is jumping in to champion Colin Kaepernick, the man who launched the now-frequent national anthem protests, and is making

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  • Is ‘Monkey This Up’ A Racial Slur?

    Is ‘Monkey This Up’ A Racial Slur?0

    Activists are calling a gubernatorial candidate racist for using the term “monkey this up.” The press is spreading these charges while failing to reveal that others have used this phrase in the same way: as a synonym for “mess things up.” After winning the Republican primary for governor of Florida, Congressman Ron DeSantis was asked

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  • If Middle Eastern Nations Are Stabilizing, Then Why Do the Refugees Keep Coming?

    If Middle Eastern Nations Are Stabilizing, Then Why Do the Refugees Keep Coming?0

    Over the past five years, a quiet humanitarian crisis has been erupting in South America. Beginning in 2009, but especially since 2015, almost four million people, or one in 10, have left Venezuela. Hugo Chavez and Nicolas Maduro’s regime are behind this steady and sure collapse of the Venezuelan economy and society. Yet as criticism

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  • A Backward View: Older Books and the Culture of the Now

    A Backward View: Older Books and the Culture of the Now0

    For almost twenty years, I have written book reviews for a weekly newspaper in Western North Carolina. In general, reviewers take an interest only in new books. This makes some sense, as older books have already received their accolades or their slings and arrows. A few critics—Nick Hornby in his collection of reviews Ten Years

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  • Why There’s So Much Inconsistency in School Shooting Data

    Why There’s So Much Inconsistency in School Shooting Data0

    How many school shootings happen in the U.S. in a single school year? The answer is surprisingly hard to figure out. In April, the U.S. Department of Education released a report on the 2015-2016 school year, stating that “nearly 240 schools (0.2 percent of all schools) reported at least 1 incident involving a school-related shooting.”

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  • Mayor Suggests Fine-Free Libraries So ‘Everyone Can Afford to Check Out a Book’

    Mayor Suggests Fine-Free Libraries So ‘Everyone Can Afford to Check Out a Book’0

    Early this spring I experienced something that has probably only happened to me once before: I had an overdue library book. Given that I was the girl in college who felt frantically behind on her homework if she wasn’t a week ahead in her assignments, this was a bit distressing. But, I gritted my teeth

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  • Learning the Fourth Amendment … from Mom

    Learning the Fourth Amendment … from Mom0

    A few months back, I regaled readers with a story about my first confrontation with the state, a head-to-head match that left my brother and I jaded as we packed up our lemonade stand on the boardwalk in Ocean City, New Jersey. This summer showed how little has changed. Several news stories emerged detailing how

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  • Four Reasons to Avoid Teaching Stranger Danger to Children

    Four Reasons to Avoid Teaching Stranger Danger to Children1

    Are you the parent of a young child? If so, I’m willing to bet that some well-intentioned person has sent you a YouTube video called Child Abduction (Social Experiment). I’ve been sent this video 5 times over the past several years, the most recent instance being last week. The video goes thus: a guy named

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  • Are Women Rejecting True Girl Power?

    Are Women Rejecting True Girl Power?0

    G. K. Chesterton was politically incorrect well before the term had been invented and well before its potent force could have been imagined. This political incorrectness especially reared its head concerning the family and gender roles, as evidenced by a 1911 Illustrated London News essay on “suffrage and the family.” On the eve of the

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