Culture

How the Summer Gave Me Hope for the Future 0
- Culture
- August 9, 2018
Several months ago, I pulled back the curtain and let my readers know what life as the only female employee at Intellectual Takeout is really like. It was revealing – and even startling to some individuals. But I’ve had a unique experience this summer. No longer am I the only female staff member of this
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How the Term ‘Social Justice Warrior’ Became an Insult 1
- Culture
- August 9, 2018
Virtually everyone has heard of the term social justice warrior by now. The term has become quite popular the past few years—so big in fact, that the Oxford Dictionary added it to their dictionary in 2015. Most people by now know that when someone is accused of being a social justice warrior, it is probably
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Are Trigger Warnings Ruining Literature?0
- Culture
- August 9, 2018
It was an ordinary lecture to first-year students, on “Women Writers and Modernism.” My brief was to introduce the different ways men and women responded to the social, intellectual and artistic challenges of the modernist movement. This is a subject about the literature of the early 20th century, but it tackles some difficult social questions
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The Problem With Conflating Sexual Advances With Sexual Harassment 0
- Culture
- August 8, 2018
It is wrong to ask someone intrusive questions about his private life. A federal appeals court made that clear in allowing a woman to sue over invasive questions by federal officials. It ruled that she had a plausible claim that federal officials violated her constitutional privacy rights by questioning her about private details of her
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Liberation Theology: How Competing Claims of Being on God’s Side Are Testing Our Social Order 0
- Culture
- August 8, 2018
Religion is a vital source for change, but it does not yield easily to what the political philosopher John Rawls in 1997 called the ‘public reason’ that enables liberal democracies. In the late 1960s, for example, a new group of radicals, known as liberation theologians, challenged the accommodation of religion to an unjust society. The
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Why We Fear (and Crave) Commitment 0
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- August 8, 2018
Recently, I attended my friend’s bachelorette party. It was tasteful compared to typical bachelorette festivities, but one thing kept us talking. That night, my friend received a plethora of congratulations, too many to count. This might be as expected considering her mock wedding veil and the sash that read, “bride to be.” So what was
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