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  • Holocaust Survivor Warns How Societies Make Monsters

    Holocaust Survivor Warns How Societies Make Monsters0

    Have you ever wondered how man sank so low as to allow and even enable horrific historical events such as the Holocaust? I recently ran across one answer to that question expressed by a man who endured the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps firsthand. The man, Viktor Frankl, was a rising Austrian psychiatrist when

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  • Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, and the Death of Human Dignity

    Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, and the Death of Human Dignity0

    So much has been said and written about the present Presidential election campaign that many of us are no doubt feeling overloaded with unwanted and ill-tempered debate and are suffering from political-spin-fatigue. This being so, I have no desire to add to the political overload nor do I intend to descend to the sewers and

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  • Academic Research is in Danger of Becoming a Joke

    Academic Research is in Danger of Becoming a Joke0

    What do a gay man expressing his voyeuristic fantasies about intercourse with Dominican sex workers, Pumpkin Spiced Lattés demonstrating inherent White Supremacy, a doctoral thesis on ethical implications of ghosts and scary stories on the internet, and the need for a Feminist epistemology of glaciers have in common? They’re all the topics of academic papers

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  • 6 Healthy Relationship Habits that are Often Mistaken as Unhealthy

    6 Healthy Relationship Habits that are Often Mistaken as Unhealthy0

    Oftentimes people think that being in a successful relationship means never fighting, learning to communicate effectively with one another, and always doing romantic gestures to show them that you care. While these are indeed all great things to strive for, they do not paint a realistic picture of the typical relationship. Everyone is different and

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  • We Might Be in for Party Reversals

    We Might Be in for Party Reversals0

    Don’t look now, but we might be in the early stages of major reversals of our two major parties on two major issues. A pipe dream? Maybe so. A vain search for silver linings as Campaign 2016 slogs on? Possibly. And yet both reversals would actually amount to a return to a past position and

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  • Twitter Suspends Another Conservative Commentator

    Twitter Suspends Another Conservative Commentator0

    Twitter has suspended the account of filmmaker James O’Keefe, founder of Project Veritas. Late last night, our organization received this message: About an hour ago, the Twitter Corporation decided to silence me and suspended my account. No notice, no warning, I just received a terse message that I had “violated” their rules. This is devastating

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  • Neuroscientist: Some Vegetative Patients Can Communicate

    Neuroscientist: Some Vegetative Patients Can Communicate0

    John Smith, a 34-year-old father of two, was driving his car to bowling when he was involved in an accident. His skull sustained a severe trauma and he was admitted to the intensive care unit. John was in a coma, at serious risk of death. Luckily, critical-care nurses and physicians managed to save his life.

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  • How to Fix U.S. Elections

    How to Fix U.S. Elections0

    Experts rate the performance of recent American elections as the worst among two dozen Western democracies. Why? Some longstanding practices are to blame. Partisan gerrymandering insulates incumbents. Infotainment-dominated commercial news reduce campaigns to spectator sport. Social media amplifies angry trolls. Ballot access laws restrict third-party challengers. Women and minority candidates have to fight a hostile

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  • Distinguished Prof: The ‘Whiteness of Pumpkins’ Has Become ‘Perilous’

    Distinguished Prof: The ‘Whiteness of Pumpkins’ Has Become ‘Perilous’1

    • October 13, 2016

    Lisa Powell, a postdoctoral fellow in British Columbia, and Elizabeth Engelhardt, Distinguished Professor of Southern Studies at the University of North Carolina, have just released an essay in a peer-reviewed journal that offers an analysis of race relations in America today. The title of their paper? “The Perilous Whiteness of Pumpkins.” Seriously. Listen, the jumping

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