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Will Downton Abbey’s Gender Problem Be Solved in the 21st Century?0
- Culture
- August 30, 2018
A British aristocrat has daughters but no sons, thus his title and estate must pass to a distant male relative. It’s the classic plot device in many famous stories – ranging from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice to the TV show Downton Abbey. And it’s still the law of the land in Great Britain, but
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Why High Voter Participation is Overrated0
- Politics
- August 30, 2018
Elections in free and open societies are often judged on voter participation rates. Pundits and scholars point to cases of poor voter turnout to support claims that our democracy is slowly decaying. This view is flawed. Voters are often uninformed, and higher voter turnout would do nothing to address this problem. Voters are regular
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The Ideology of Statue Smashing0
- August 29, 2018
Statue smashing is back in the news. One night last week, University of North Carolina students pulled down “Silent Sam,” a bronze monument to students and faculty of the university who fought as Confederate soldiers in the Civil War. The bronze figure is portrayed as static, quiet and without ammunition for his gun—and facing northward—apparently
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Existing Law Didn’t Protect Victims From the Jacksonville Shooter. It Left Them Defenseless.0
- Politics
- August 29, 2018
This past weekend, a competitor at a video game competition in Jacksonville, Florida, allegedly opened fire on fellow gamers, killing two and wounding 10 before taking his own life. It appears that, like so many mass public shooters before him, current gun laws should have been enough to prevent him from possessing firearms. And once
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Adulting May Be Hard at First, but It’s So Worth It0
- Culture
- August 29, 2018
Millennials, myself included, have a bad habit of complaining that #AdultingIsHard. A simple hashtag search of that on Twitter will get you literally thousands of results, even a few accounts with that claim as their usernames. It’s a trope so ingrained into my generation that it can be used almost anywhere. You finally graduated from
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Catholic Sex Abuse Crisis: PA AG Says He Has Evidence That Vatican Knew0
- Culture
- August 29, 2018
Can you imagine a worse job than being in law enforcement with the duty of investigating cases of child sex abuse? How that must leave a person permanently scarred in soul and mind – and how that person must burn with a desire for justice. A few weeks ago, Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro
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