Culture

What the Response to Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Death Says About America’s Future 0
- Culture
- September 22, 2020
“Burn it all down.” “Civility is dead.” That is how leading political voices have been responding to the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg at age 87 since it was announced on Friday. Others have voiced concern that America’s social fabric – already frayed by the presidential election, the pandemic, the lockdowns, and the riots – may
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It Seems That Millennials Are More Willing to Commit 0
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- September 22, 2020
While millennials have been widely hailed as selfish, entitled, unreliable and snowflake-like to say the least (Time magazine once labelled them the “me me me generation”), it turns out they just might be the next generation to want to stay in a job for life and store money under the mattress for a rainy day
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Black Lives Matter Linked to 91% of Riots Over Three Months 0
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- September 21, 2020
The Black Lives Matter movement is linked to more than 9 in 10 riots across the country, according to a recent study. The U.S. experienced 637 riots between May 26 and Sept. 12, and 91 percent of those riots were linked to the Black Lives Matter movement, according to the US Crisis Monitor, a joint
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Finding Hope in America 0
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- September 18, 2020
In a time when America and its history are under assault, I recently found hope and inspiration in a visit to Virginia’s Historic Triangle: Jamestown, Williamsburg, and Yorktown. At all three of these historical places I found much-needed relief from months of rioting and our poisonous political atmosphere. Everywhere I went – the Jamestown Settlement
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Identity Issues: Probing Woke Culture 0
- Culture
- September 17, 2020
We are all different and all unique, and I try to treat everybody as an individual rather than stereotyping them as belonging to some group. I do my best to treat everyone with the same respect I’d like them to extend to me. But I confess to being un-woke and not understanding the logic behind
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Unplugging From Reality: Have Some of Us Lost Our Minds?0
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- September 16, 2020
My Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary is no longer new – it was published in 1986 – most of the time my online dictionary suffices. Once in a blue moon, however, I flip open my trusty Webster’s. The word I was hunting this time was psychosis, which this faded red volume defines as “fundamental mental derangement (as paranoia)
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