Culture

How Much Can One Person Accomplish in a Day?0
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- December 11, 2019
Twenty-four hours, 1,440 minutes, 86,400 seconds. There’s a lot of time in a day: time to be productive and make the most out of life. Rarely, though, do we even come close to pursuing what we ought, or what we actually want, to do. Instead, we spend it on things that we regret. Take TV.
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Epstein Scandal Proves Monarchy Is More Answerable to the People Than Democracy 0
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- December 11, 2019
A huge number of famous individuals have been named in the Jeffrey Epstein scandal. The late pedophile’s connections included many elected officials like President Donald Trump, former President Bill Clinton, former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, and former Israeli President Ehud Barak. To date, though, there is only one person who has paid a heavy
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Kids and Sexuality: Enough Is Enough 0
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- December 10, 2019
Stop. No, that’s not enough. To paraphrase “the girl” in Hemingway’s story “Hills Like White Elephants,” “Would you please please please please please please please stop?” Second-graders at a swimming pool should not be placed in an adult changing room. Anyone with a grain of sense understands this concept. In Asheville, North Carolina, I used
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Life After Flight from Castro’s Cuba 0
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- December 10, 2019
When Mercedes (“Mercy”) Rodriguez arrived in America on a fall day in 1979, the first thing she noticed was how clean and wide the streets were. The 15-year-old Cuban refugee had just arrived on a plane carrying nearly a dozen political prisoners, including her father and brothers. They had been blacklisted and then detained for
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The Anti-Feminist Message Hidden in ‘Little Women’0
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- December 9, 2019
I’ve been bombarded with ads for the new “Little Women” movie for the last few months. It appears Google knows my preferences well, because, yes, I am curious to see it. But even while I’m curious, I’m also a tad apprehensive. Dana Stevens’ Slate review of the movie fails to quell these fears, for she
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The Pros and Cons of Kids With Smartphones 0
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- December 9, 2019
How many of you are thinking of getting your tween a cell phone for Christmas? Because we all know that in the eyes of a tween or teen, a shiny new cell phone under the Christmas tree is even better than Santa. And the pressure is on: everyone at school has a cell phone nowadays.
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