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Why America Can’t Figure Out Melania’s Confident Fashion Statements 0
- Culture
- April 25, 2018
The first state dinner hosted by the Trumps was received with great pomp, circumstance, and, per usual, titter over the little details. Perhaps not surprisingly, it was First Lady Melania Trump’s fashion choices that generated a lot of attention. Her gown for the dinner. The black outfit she wore when she visited Mount Vernon. The
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Whistleblower: There Is No Faculty Accountability in Universities 0
- Education
- April 24, 2018
I became interested in academic accountability within the university because I had no choice: the lack of accountability I experienced at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington obligated me to act. I had become embroiled in a situation where I was morally bound to report wrongdoing. But I had no idea that being a
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What Did Hannah Arendt Really Mean by the Banality of Evil?0
- History
- April 24, 2018
Can one do evil without being evil? This was the puzzling question that the philosopher Hannah Arendt grappled with when she reported for The New Yorker in 1961 on the war crimes trial of Adolph Eichmann, the Nazi operative responsible for organising the transportation of millions of Jews and others to various concentration camps in
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6 Reasons Evangelical Churches Should Consider Giving Confession a Shot 1
- Religion
- April 24, 2018
As a child, the Catholic rite of confession always seemed mysterious to me. I once asked my father why our church didn’t do that. He offered a lengthy exegesis on the nature of sin and how it separates humans from God, adding that God alone can atone for human sin. Or something along those lines—I
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Poll Reveals the Least Religious Parts of America 0
- Religion
- April 24, 2018
This month, Gallup released the results of their annual poll on religious practice in America. The most religious state? Mississippi, which has held the crown since 2008. According to the poll, 59% of Mississippi’s residents report being “Very religious,” meaning that “religion is important to them, and they attend religious services weekly or almost weekly.”
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If Current Laws Had Been Followed, There Would Have Been No Waffle House Shooting 0
- Culture
- April 24, 2018
On Monday afternoon, Tennessee law enforcement officers captured a 29-year-old Illinois man suspected of opening fire on diners at a Nashville Waffle House, despite the man having had his firearms seized on multiple occasions in the last two years. Four people died and several others were wounded by the shooter—who wore nothing but a green
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