Culture

Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Solid Advice for the Holidays 0
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- December 10, 2018
Lin-Manuel Miranda is about as liberal as they come. As a major Broadway star, a rising Hollywood actor, and a frequent pop-up on all manner of late-night talk shows and channels, I guess that’s the natural path for the poor dude to follow. Despite his liberal tendencies, I personally think that Lin-Manuel’s twitter account
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Harvard Study: Gender Pay Gap Explained Entirely by Work Choices of Men and Women 0
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- December 10, 2018
“Gender pay gap is worse than thought: Study shows women actually earn half the income of men,” NBC announced recently in reference to a report titled “Still a Man’s Labor Market” by the Washington-based Institute for Women’s Policy Research, which found that women’s income was 51 percent less than men’s earnings. The “Gender Pay Gap” Isn’t What You
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Jordan Peterson and the Unknown God 0
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- December 7, 2018
“All the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.”—Acts 17:21 To some, Jordan Peterson is a breath of fresh air. To others, a guru. Many find him and his ideas to be dangerous. Still others see him as a sign of
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The Brilliant Reason This School Decided to ‘Cancel’ Christmas 0
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- December 7, 2018
It seems there’s always some Grinch that wants to ruin Christmas every year. This year the Grinch award seemed ready to go to a British school in Yorkshire whose teachers told students that Christmas celebrations would be banned from its halls. According to The Guardian, that decree meant “‘no cards, no parties, no gifts and
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Maybe You’re A Witch 0
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- December 6, 2018
Those who seek to control and to destroy like to play with words. The great Athenian sculptor Phidias was persecuted by those who whimsically used the words “embezzlement” and “impiety.” Joan d’Arc was burnt and Galileo prosecuted via an eternally elastic concept of “heresy.” The witch hysteria relied on a protean concept of “evidence.” The
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Moralitis: The Cultural Virus That Keeps Reason at Bay 0
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- December 6, 2018
Common sense has a bad name. Among the educated middle class, it has connotations with the backwardness of provincial folk, reverence to tradition, and outmoded mores on gender and cultural diversity. That so many people continue to think in this way is no validation, because the intelligentsia derides the very notion of ‘normal’. Our culture
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