Women Rule – How They Took Down a King
By: Elizabeth Larkin Bouché As inauguration day approaches and women ready themselves for the Women’s March on Washington, I am
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01, 2017
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01, 2017
Life is More Binary than Fiction: A Writer Reflects on Political Polarization
We are living in the Fruit Loops vs. Cheerios Political System. Each Fruit Loop represents a position on an issue, and each Cheerio its “opposite.” If you are on Team Fruit Loop, you MUST accept and agree and support all Fruit Loops, likewise with Team Cheerio. This is a binary system. This is bullshit. We would never allow such simple sorting for fictional characters, so why is it being pushed in reality?
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11, 2016
What is “Fascist”? Umberto Eco on Ur-Fascism
"There is in our future a TV or Internet populism, in which the emotional response of a selected group of citizens can be presented and accepted as the Voice of the People." -Umberto Eco
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07, 2016
Georgetown and Slavery: Catholic Redemption in Contemporary Political Time
By: Justin R. Harbour, ALM Georgetown University is currently engaged in an attempt to research, understand, and repair its role
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03, 2016
Sanders at Dearborn: A Socialist Love-Story
The idea that Bernie Sanders' support among Arabs and Muslims suggests there is little anti-Semitism in America is as absurd as the idea that there is no more racism in America, since it has elected a black president. Sanders is a democratic socialist, and socialism is one of the few Western political ideologies to have taken root in a big way in the Arab and Muslim world. This is a better explanation
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03, 2016
The Anti-Trumplodytes
Donald J. Trump is not like Hitler. It seems this can't be repeated often enough. It can't be repeated often enough because saying that Trump is like Hitler does two things: it denigrates the sacrifices and sufferings of millions upon millions of human beings, military and civilian, during the Second World War, and it promotes such laziness of thinking as to make even basic political understanding impossible to achieve.
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06, 2015
The Gods of Barack Obama
By: Lucian On February 4th, in the year of our Lords, 2014, President Barack Obama formally announced himself as the