Culture

When Sears Used the Market to Combat Jim Crow 0
- Culture
- October 22, 2018
After 125 years in business, Sears has filed for bankruptcy and may soon be closing its doors forever. This has elicited strong emotions, as Sears has been an integral part of America’s commercial history. But just like Blockbuster and Toys R Us, it’s time for Sears to embrace creative destruction and pave the way for
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Why Robin Williams’ Character from ‘Dead Poets Society’ is a Terrible Person 0
- Culture
- October 22, 2018
He’s an actor we all remember fondly, playing one of the most beloved characters in recent cinematic history in a movie that few in my chosen field of study, English Literature, regard as anything short of scripture. I’m speaking, of course, of Robin Williams and his role as John Keating in “Dead Poets Society,” a
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Why the U.S. Must Become an ‘Aspirational’ Society Once Again 0
- Culture
- October 19, 2018
When a society feels that the solution for poverty is for the poor to have the opportunity to become rich through hard work and self-improvement, you have an aspirational society. The United States could be classified by this term once upon a time, but in more recent years it has morphed into an envious society
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Whatever Happened to Coffee Shop Courtesy?1
- Culture
- October 19, 2018
“I’ve become that guy who sits in the corner and keeps his opinions to himself.” I am working away on my laptop in a coffee shop that serves as my second home when the man at the nearby table speaks those words. Here’s a sixty-something guy, a little worse for the wear, who for the
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Fabricating Hate Crimes Is a Byproduct of Victimhood Ideology on College Campuses 0
- Culture
- October 19, 2018
Anna Ayers, a student government leader at Ohio University, reported finding threatening messages in the drawer of her desk a few weeks ago. Ayers, an LGBT student, said the three notes were “hateful, harassing,” according to The Post Athens, a student-run news outlet, and made specific attacks on her sexual identity. “Senate will never be the same
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Why Cultural Marxism Seeks to Control Culture 0
- Culture
- October 19, 2018
Another name for the neo-Marxism of increasing popularity in the United States is “cultural Marxism.” This theory says that the driving force behind the socialist revolution is not the proletariat — but the intellectuals. While Marxism has largely disappeared from the workers’ movement, Marxist theory flourishes today in cultural institutions, in the academic world, and in the
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