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  • How to Avoid Becoming a Casualty of Student Loan Debt

    How to Avoid Becoming a Casualty of Student Loan Debt1

    More frequently, college graduates are reporting that student loan debt dictates almost every aspect of their lives, including “jobs, children, marriage, buying a house, and saving for retirement.” Some feel “trapped” and bear crushing guilt for having others cosign on ill-advised loans.  Graduates are suffering not just financially, but physically as well. A recent survey showed that “[m]ore than 61

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  • How ‘Incredibles 2’ Is Making Superheroes Great Again

    How ‘Incredibles 2’ Is Making Superheroes Great Again0

    I saw Incredibles 2 over the Father’s Day weekend, and just like its predecessor, there’s a lot to ponder beneath the surface of this animated film. In the real world we’ve had to wait 14 years, but the sequel picks up basically where the original left off. As the Rev. Jerry Zandstra wrote of the original, “litigiousness and

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  • Hey Millennials: Here’s the Truth About Socialism, Kim Jong-un, and Nicolás Maduro

    Hey Millennials: Here’s the Truth About Socialism, Kim Jong-un, and Nicolás Maduro0

    A recent story in the New York Times discussed the increasing willingness of political candidates in the United States to run as socialists. Times reporter Farah Stockman wrote that the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is surging, even in conservative-leaning states. “Since November 2016, DSA’s membership has increased from about 5,000 to 35,000 nationwide,” Stockman wrote. “The

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  • 3 Tips from Ernest Dimnet on Choosing Books—For Yourself and For Your Children

    3 Tips from Ernest Dimnet on Choosing Books—For Yourself and For Your Children0

    I have a problem. This problem doesn’t consume me, but it often concerns me. It can lead me to inaction and make me doubt my judgment.  The problem is this—I often struggle with how to choose a book.  I have this problem with my home library, my local library, and my work library. Most often, I

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  • Who’s on the Right Side of History?

    Who’s on the Right Side of History?1

    It has become a commonplace in modern political polemic to talk about being on the right side of history. It is a phrase commonly employed by those who consider themselves “enlightened” or “progressive” and is used to condemn political opponents for being on the wrong side of history, or as being historically incorrect. As usual,

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  • What the Reaction to MPR Raccoon Tells Us About Millennials

    What the Reaction to MPR Raccoon Tells Us About Millennials0

    Perhaps you heard, but the raccoon that scaled the UBS building in Saint Paul, Minnesota, was just using its superpower instincts. As Suzanne MacDonald, a psychologist from York University studying urban raccoons, notes in an article for The Washington Post, the newly dubbed #mprraccoon was just hungry and curious— and also happens to have Spiderman

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