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  • Tyler Perry Responds to Charge His New Show is ‘Too White’

    Tyler Perry Responds to Charge His New Show is ‘Too White’0

    Director Tyler Perry has a new show that that debuted on TLC last night, but what caught most people’s attention is the color of many cast members. Perry, BET reports, is taking heat for the number of white actors in the show, which is called Tyler Perry’s Too Close to Home. Unfortunately, the show is

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  • Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers

    Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers0

    Oddly enough in our hyper-cynical society, there seems to be little questioning about underlying goals of some of the #BlackLivesMatter protests and related on-campus activism. Not to worry, Tom Wolfe did the job, pulling back the curtain for us way back in 1970. That’s probably a good thing since there probably aren’t any authors who

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  • Margaret Mead and Agenda-Driven Social Science0

    Recently, Japanese universities started moving away from liberal arts and social sciences, sending global “shivers down academic spines.” The official reason given was a need to focus on disciplines more needed by society.   There’s been considerable self-examination  about the direction of science at the highest levels, including in recent editorials in top science journal Nature. That’s a good sign: we can’t fix

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  • Americans Say U.S. Schools Stink (But Not Their Own)

    Americans Say U.S. Schools Stink (But Not Their Own)0

    To mark the start of the 2016-2017 school year, Education Next released their annual public opinion poll on the state of education. One of the most interesting aspects of this poll is the grades Americans assign to the nation’s local and national schools. In terms of the nation’s schools as a whole, Americans aren’t impressed.

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  • What Makes a Sentence a Masterpiece?

    What Makes a Sentence a Masterpiece?0

    A great sentence makes you want to chew it over slowly in your mouth the first time you read it. A great sentence compels you to rehearse it again in your mind’s ear, and then again later on. A sentence must have a certain distinction of style – the words come in an order that

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  • Univ. of Chicago Pushes Back on Trigger Warnings, Safe Spaces

    Univ. of Chicago Pushes Back on Trigger Warnings, Safe Spaces0

    Academics around the country are embracing the relatively new trend of using trigger warnings to shield students from ideas that might be discomforting or trauma-inducing. These ideas often include topics that touch on “racism, classism, sexism, heterosexism, cissexism, ableism, and other issues of privilege and oppression.” Though there is some debate surrounding how widespread the

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