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What the Bathroom Wars Really Mean 0
- Culture
- April 25, 2016
It’s understandable that some people are impatient, even disgusted, with all the fuss about which public bathrooms transgendered people get to use. Such feelings arise in part from the natural assumption that it shouldn’t be anybody’s business what people look like in the privacy of the stall. At least as understandable, however, is the fear
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Former CEO of McDonald’s: $15 Minimum Wage Will Cost Jobs 0
- Culture
- April 25, 2016
Ed Rensi, the former president of McDonald’s USA, wrote an article that appeared in Forbes recently in which he argued that raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour could cost about a million jobs in limited service restaurants. Rensi, who worked at McDonald’s for three decades before he became Chief Executive Officer,
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Jesse Jackson’s Surprising Harsh Words for Schools in 1977 0
- Culture
- April 25, 2016
As someone who slides into the backend of the Gen-X generation, my view of the Rev. Jesse Jackson has always been basically the same. My charitable view of Jackson had been that he is a gifted speaker with a great deal of media savvy; that he cares deeply for people, but sometimes offers dubious solutions
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‘Alloparenting’ Is Not a Replacement for the Traditional Family 0
- Culture
- April 25, 2016
Is it good for parents to have lots of help raising their children? Often it is, and sometimes it’s even necessary. Of course, it depends on who’s helping, how they help, and why the help given is needed. But does it follow that the value of good help casts doubt on the benefits of being
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Why Shakespeare Is Still Relevant 0
- Education
- April 23, 2016
On the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare, all lovers of the beauties of the English language and all lovers of the glories of great literature will be in celebratory mode. Here at Aquinas College in Nashville we’re having an all-day Shakespeare Celebration with actors and academics brushing shoulders with college and high-school
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How Grade Inflation Erodes the Meaning of College 0
- Culture
- April 22, 2016
Every so often, the issue of grade inflation makes the headlines, and we are reminded that grades are being debased continuously. That happened in late March when the two academics who have most assiduously studied grade inflation—Stuart Rojstaczer and Christopher Healy—provided fresh evidence on their site GradeInflation.com that grade inflation continues. The authors state, “After 30 years of making
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