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Why Hate Eradicators Should Reconsider the Removal of Christopher Columbus Statues 0
- Culture
- September 5, 2017
They came aboard ships … just over five million they were, migrating to the United States over five decades between the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. They were Italians. They came ashore, mostly on Ellis Island in New York, but there were also other ports of call like Boston and New Orleans. With few
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How Adults Can Discover What Schools Are Really Teaching Kids 0
- Culture
- September 5, 2017
Homeschoolers are no strangers to questions concerning their decision to educate their children at home. Such a choice opens them up to inquiries on everything from their qualifications to whether their children will be socially well-adjusted. Homeschool parents realize that such questions are natural and come with the territory. But according to a recent Washington
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Civil Discourse Seems to be at an All-time Low. Why?0
- Culture
- September 5, 2017
In an age where partisanship reigns supreme, there seems to be one issue on which members of both the Left and Right agree, namely, the declining presence of civil discourse. Nowhere was this more apparent than in a recent townhall style meeting in Damariscotta, Maine. As The Boston Globe reports: More than 100 Mainers showed
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The Broken-Window Fallacy Is Alive and Well, Hurricane Harvey Proves 0
- Economics
- September 5, 2017
As Hurricane Harvey, now tropical storm Harvey, makes its way across the southern US, estimates have already come in as to the cost of the storm. According to AccuWeather, Harvey is expected to cost upwards of $190 billion in damages, one percent of the national GDP. This makes Harvey the costliest storm ever to hit the United
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How Flannery O’Connor Can Heal Our Fractured Politics 0
- Culture
- September 1, 2017
In 2014, I spoke at the American Embassy in Prague at a symposium on the civil rights movement in America. I made the mistake of offering Flannery O’Connor’s story “Everything that Rises Must Converge” as a reminder that we are all to blame for the mess we’re in. O’Connor says of her own story, “I
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Houston Rescuers Prove the Lie of ‘Toxic Masculinity’0
- Culture
- September 1, 2017
Men. We are just the worst, with our toxic masculinity and patriarchal privilege. We are the source of literally all the world’s problems, from war, income inequality, and “rape culture” to the misogynistic microaggressions of “mansplaining” and “manspreading.” If we are ever to create a nonviolent, truly gender-equal world, we must rip away the false,
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