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  • Notre Dame Prof Calls Higher Ed Today ‘Bullshit’

    Notre Dame Prof Calls Higher Ed Today ‘Bullshit’0

    Every week it seems like we hear from a professor who has become disillusioned with the higher education system. The latest one is Christian Smith, professor of sociology at the University of Notre Dame. Last week, his jeremiad against the modern university appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education. Smith’s beginning two paragraphs set the

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  • What Today’s Young Men and Women Can Learn From the Abernathy Boys

    What Today’s Young Men and Women Can Learn From the Abernathy Boys0

    Ten years ago, Lenore Skenazy started the modern free range kids movement when she wrote a column about letting her nine-year-old son ride the New York subway home by himself. Highly criticized for such a move, Skenazy explains that the subway ride was her son’s idea, and only came after he begged long and hard

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  • The Decline and Fall of ‘The Andy Griffith Show’

    The Decline and Fall of ‘The Andy Griffith Show’0

    Believe it or not, I had never heard of Andy Griffith until I was forty years old. For some reason, The Andy Griffith Show had never made an impact on British television; at least, I have no recollection of ever seeing it, unlike other American sitcoms which had formed part of the backdrop to my

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  • Meet the Theologian Who Taught MLK the Value of Nonviolence

    Meet the Theologian Who Taught MLK the Value of Nonviolence0

    After this last tumultuous year of political rancor and racial animus, many people could well be asking what can sustain them over the next coming days: How do they make the space for self-care alongside a constant call to activism? Or, how do they turn off their phones, when there are more calls to be

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  • How Collective Narcissism Fuels Political and Social Discord

    How Collective Narcissism Fuels Political and Social Discord0

    In 2007, a British school teacher in Sudan received a jail sentence under Sharia law because she allowed her pupils to name a classroom teddy-bear ‘Muhammad’. The day after the sentence was announced, more than 10,000 people took to the streets of Khartoum demanding the teacher’s execution for blasphemy. While alternative explanations existed – the

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  • Can Something Be ‘Good’ or ‘Great’, Even If You Hate It?

    Can Something Be ‘Good’ or ‘Great’, Even If You Hate It?0

    I don’t really care for C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia. I sympathize with the allegory Lewis was trying to present throughout the series, but I felt that it was too overt in places, and took away from the overall narrative. To me, it was distracting. But even though I didn’t personally enjoy the Chronicles of

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