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Why is ‘Person of Color’ Good and ‘Colored Person’ Bad?0
- Culture
- February 17, 2017
A person close to me recently used the phrase “people of color” at a work meeting. “Are we supposed to say that?” asked a gentleman in his 50s. A conversation ensued. After several minutes of discussion, the person who originally used the phrase said the group had gone off topic, but she insisted her choice
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King Lear: A Tragedy on Relativism 0
- Culture
- February 17, 2017
Know thou this: that men Are as the time is. -Edmund (King Lear, Act V, Scene 3) One of the most rudimentary errors that one can make in reading a literary text is to see the words of a character as being synonymous with those of the author. Take, for example, these lines from
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College Illiteracy is Growing 1
- Culture
- February 17, 2017
For a number of years, it was assumed that public education was swimming along, efficiently educating children of all ages. More recently, the products coming out of public schools have caused a troubling concern to leap into the minds of adults: are schools dumbing down the content they teach to students? That concern seems to
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8 Reasons You Should NOT Read Great Books 0
- Culture
- February 17, 2017
Unless I miss my guess, almost every one of us have taken a quiz to see how many titles we’ve read from a list of 100 classic books. If you’re like me, you’ve probably read more than the average test taker, but your score still causes you to wince a bit and resolve to read
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‘Sensitivity Readers’ Are Screening Content for Publishing Houses 0
- February 17, 2017
Via the Chicago Tribune: Before a book is published and released to the public, it’s passed through the hands (and eyes) of many people: an author’s friends and family, an agent and, of course, an editor. These days, though, a book may get an additional check from an unusual source: a sensitivity reader, a person
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Wisconsin Students Demand Free Tuition for Blacks 0
- History
- February 16, 2017
Via the Associated Press: “Black students should be offered free tuition and housing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison because blacks were legally barred from education during slavery and UW-Madison remains out of reach for black students today, the student government said Wednesday. The Associated Students of Madison [ASM] said in a resolution that students from
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Why Children Ask ‘Why’ (And How You Should Answer Them)1
- Family
- February 16, 2017
When I was about four years old, I asked my mother one of my first ‘Why?’ questions: ‘Mom, why does Pippo live underwater?’ Mom explained that Pippo, our goldfish, was a fish, and fish live underwater. This answer left me unsatisfied, so I kept enquiring: ‘Why do fish live underwater? Can’t we also live underwater?’
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U.S. Economy Hits All-Time Low in Freedom Index 0
- Culture
- February 16, 2017
The United States recently slipped to its lowest level yet in world rankings of economic freedom compiled by the Heritage Foundation and The Wall Street Journal. It now qualifies not as “free” but as “mostly free.” As The Hill notes: “In the latest report, the U.S. ranks 17th out of 180 countries with an economic
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Students in Turkey Value Free Speech Way More than American Students 0
- Culture
- February 16, 2017
Several weeks ago, many in the U.S. were rather disturbed when protestors at UC Berkeley were able to shut out controversial speaker Milo Yiannopoulos from speaking on campus. As CNN reported: “More than 1,500 protesters had gathered at Sproul Plaza, chanting and holding signs that read: ‘No safe space for racists’ and ‘This is war.’
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