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Dear Media: Stop Putting Scare Quotes Around ‘Free Speech’0
- Culture
- August 21, 2017
Irony punctuation is an age-old (and effective) literary device writers use as a sort of wink to readers. Techniques vary, but a particularly popular device is the use of “scare quotes,” which indicate to readers the word or phrase in the quotes should be viewed with skepticism. (A less subtle way of conveying this would
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You Can’t Stop Fascism by Killing the Next Hitler 0
- History
- August 21, 2017
Joshua Witt sports a haircut fashionable among young men—full on the top and buzz cut on the sides. Recently after a haircut in Colorado, a man came up to Joshua and asked, “Are you one of them neo-Nazis?” As he asked, the stranger was swinging a knife and stabbed Joshua. Nicholas Fuentes, a Boston University
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Kaepernick Makes Black History Smithsonian Before Clarence Thomas 0
- Culture
- August 21, 2017
Free agent NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick will be featured in a Black Lives Matter collection at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, museum curators announced this weekend. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, the nation’s longest-serving black justice, remains absent from the museum. USA Today Sports reports items belonging to Kaepernick will be incorporated into
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How Much Should We Hate Our Enemies?0
- Culture
- August 18, 2017
The same-sex marriage debate is about to heat up in Australia, and for both sides the temptation to embrace fear and hate will be fierce. Most of us have enemies, even if we don’t recognise it. Most of us hate someone, or some group of people, even if we won’t admit it to ourselves. Hate
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The Death of Reading 0
- Culture
- August 18, 2017
I read Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis for the first time last December. A lifelong Christian and Narnia superfan, I’m late to the party, I know. But as the dust settled from an election that shined a glaring spotlight on our cultural divisions—political, social, economic, theological—I was feeling out of sorts. Christian leaders I respected as
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Elementary School to Remove ‘Conformity’ Posters Amid Uproar 0
- Education
- August 18, 2017
In case there was any ambiguity over the idea that mass schooling values and rewards conformity and compliance, an elementary school in Florida has made it very clear. At Deer Park Elementary School in Pasco County, signs appeared this week showing a hierarchy of behaviors from good to bad. “Democracy” was at the top, “Anarchy”
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