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Chuck Schumer Under Fire After NYC Terrorist Attack for Role in ‘Diversity Visa Lottery’0
- November 1, 2017
President Donald Trump slammed Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., early Wednesday for his role in launching the program that reportedly allowed an extremist onto American soil. Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov, 29, a green card holder from Uzbekistan, mowed down pedestrians and bicyclists in a rented truck Tuesday afternoon in lower Manhattan before crashing into a school bus. He
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Anti-Discrimination Laws Apply to Democrats Who Believe in White Privilege, Too 0
- November 1, 2017
Regardless of how one feels about the theory of white privilege, it’s still, for now, just that: a theory. Anti-discrimination laws, on the other hand, are very real. Someone perhaps should remind Madeleine Leader of this fact. Leader, the Democratic National Committee Data Services Manager, reportedly made what is likely a very illegal request in
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Why Do We Like Being Scared?0
- Culture
- October 31, 2017
Fear may be as old as life on Earth. It is a fundamental, deeply wired reaction, evolved over the history of biology, to protect organisms against perceived threat to their integrity or existence. Fear may be as simple as a cringe of an antenna in a snail that is touched, or as complex as existential
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The Man Who Gave Us the Reformation (His Name Isn’t Martin Luther)0
- October 31, 2017
When Martin Luther published his 95 theses 500 years ago this month, so the story goes, his general target was the corruption of the church. But he also had a very particular organisation in his sights. By October 1517, the extraordinary reach and power of the Fugger banking family was threatening not only the integrity
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Survey: Masculinity is Actually Growing in Popularity 0
- October 31, 2017
In early 2016, a YouGov survey asked participants whether they viewed masculinity in a positive or negative light. The results found that while later generations had a fairly positive viewpoint of the term, younger men and women did not. It’s not surprising that the younger generations have a negative view of masculinity. Through a
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5 Causes of the Protestant Reformation (Besides Indulgences)1
- Uncategorized
- October 31, 2017
On October 31, 1517, Martin Luther purportedly nailed his 95 Theses to the door of the Wittenberg Castle Church, thus marking the beginning of the Protestant Reformation—a movement that was to permanently divide Western Christendom. But it’s important to understand that Luther’s act did not come out of nowhere. Rather, it was preceded by at
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