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When You Tell a Woman to Keep Her Clothes On, Are You Slut-Shaming?0
- Culture
- April 13, 2016
In case you missed it amidst the chaos of the upcoming presidential election, there’s an equally epic war raging on social media about naked photos, slut shaming, and feminism. Kim Kardashian keeps putting on a Twitter strip show, posting fully or partially nude photos of herself, which has led to vocal backlash and critical comments
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Has Porn Really Become a ‘Public Health Crisis’?0
- Culture
- April 13, 2016
The Washington Post ran a blaring headline last week: IS PORN IMMORAL? THAT DOESN’T MATTER: IT’S A PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS. Gail Dines, a professor of sociology at Boston’s Wheelock College, said the science is settled: After 40 years of peer-reviewed research, scholars can say with confidence that porn is an industrial product that shapes how
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What the Poor Need the Most?0
- Culture
- April 12, 2016
At times the works of Georges Bernanos may seem quite dark and penetrating. There is a brutal realism to his writings that acts as a mirror for the reader to pierce his own soul, to reflect upon his own evil and good. In The Diary of a Country Priest (1937), Bernanos follows the life of
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What Did Nietzsche Mean by ‘God is Dead’?1
- Culture
- April 12, 2016
Last week marked the 50th anniversary of one of the most famous magazine covers ever. In The Gay Science (1882), Friedrich Nietzsche’s character of the madman had proclaimed, “God is dead.” The Time cover for April 8, 1966, turned this proclamation into a provocative question for a world where religious practice was waning: But, though
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2,200-Year-Old Poop Reveals Mystery of Where Hannibal’s Army Crossed Alps 0
- Culture
- April 12, 2016
Hannibal Barca was one of the greatest conquerors of the ancient world and the bane of Rome for two decades. Hannibal’s invasion of Italia through the Alps during the Second Punic War (218 –201 BC), in which he invaded with 30,000 men, 15,000 thousand horses and mules, and 37 elephants, nearly destroyed Rome. Though Hannibal’s
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New Report: Evidence for Pre-K is Sketchy at Best 0
- Education
- April 12, 2016
A couple months ago, the Brookings Institution came out with a paper questioning the evidence on pre-K’s effectiveness. As author Dale Farran noted: “The proposition that expanding pre-K will improve later achievement for children from low-income families is premature. Premature as well is the presumption that solid research exists to guide the content and structure
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