Culture

Burying ‘Dead White Males’0
- Culture
- February 3, 2020
In the on-going debate over whether “dead white males” like William Shakespeare are needed anymore in English courses, Sheffield University, one of England’s leading institutions of higher education, says No. According to a report in The Telegraph, an induction video for first-year students asserts that “academia has historically been a white dominated space” and encourages students
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Why Does Middle America Vote for Trump?0
- Culture
- January 31, 2020
Many mainstream journalists have wondered how social conservatives could bring themselves to support a crass, twice-divorced politician as president. If they would bother covering events like last week’s March for Life, which they rarely do, they might find some enlightenment. For the last 46 years around this time, thousands of people gather at the National
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Celebrating the New Masculinity of Millennial Dads 0
- Culture
- January 31, 2020
Go to any family-friendly place and you’ll see them. They are men in their late 20s to early 40s, pushing strollers, wearing backpacks full of baby supplies, and sometimes sporting baby carriers with infants tucked inside. Many of them have beards, wear baseball caps, and proudly flaunt their dad bods. They call their kids “buddy”
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Truth Is Being Replaced in American Colleges 0
- Culture
- January 31, 2020
In the U.K. college typically lasts just three years. Students apply directly to a discipline – Psychology or Biology – supposedly having received their general education in high school. This process worked in the past, when only a tiny fraction of the eighteen-year-old population went on to college. The American higher education experience has always
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Three Things I Have Learned From Living in Brazil 0
- Culture
- January 30, 2020
I live in Brazil. What image does that conjure up in your mind? Perhaps you think of pristine white beaches and coconut trees. Maybe your first thought is of the amazing soccer talent in this country. Maybe you are imagining a country populated by ridiculously good looking, surgically enhanced people. There’s a kernel of truth
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Kobe Bryant’s ‘Letter to My Younger Self’ Holds a Lesson for Us All 0
- Culture
- January 29, 2020
After his storied NBA career but before his tragic death at the age of 41, Kobe Bryant wrote a letter to himself. His 17-year-old self, to be precise. By this time, Bryant had accumulated five NBA Championship rings and a net worth of $680 million. But it wasn’t just material things Bryant had acquired. The
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