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At best the economic story captures a sliver of the human experience, yet it enjoys such pervasiveness and powerful control over our understanding of ourselves that it shrouds and dismisses alternative ways of thinking (and thus, living); what we believe in the economic story ...
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Meager or nonexistent as their economic benefits to students may be, and deplorable as their marketing practices are, for-profit colleges and universities are a symptom of the larger problem of unaffordability and unavailability of quality education in the United States. Without some kind of financial aid, it is nearly impossible for anyone but...
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While Romney and Ryan champion the very self-reliance they claim makes government hardly necessary, they support legislation that does women’s thinking for them without so much as the slightest gesture of compassion, or the cursory acknowledgment that it is already traumatic enough without Republican legislation seizing control of their wombs
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In the name of religious liberty, 43 Roman Catholic institutions recently filed a lawsuit against the Obama Administration, contending that their rights are violated by the health care mandate requiring employers to cover birth control ...
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Attempts to compare left- and right-wing strains of feminism will encounter the collective ambivalence Americans feel about the effects of the sexual revolution and the women’s movement. While Third Wave feminist discourse (which is what most of liberal feminism claims to participate in) generally rejects the value of a universal feminine ideal or essence,...
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Opponents of adoption and marriage by same-sex couples need to face these facts about the modern family. If they were really interested in promoting the welfare of American families and children...
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Pro-life groups in the United States tend to promote one goal: making abortion illegal. While they have failed thus far to overturn Roe v. Wade or to ban abortion outright in smaller jurisdictions, the pro-life movement has succeeded in cutting off funding to Planned Parenthood and has made it more difficult to obtain a...
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Both opponents and proponents of same-sex marriage appeal to the raising of children in their arguments. In recent Western history, it has been considered essentially feminine or essentially masculine to be a good mother or a good father, respectively. Today, our ideal of child-rearing consists less in parents fulfilling duties that are designated by...
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Over the past several decades Americans have become increasingly alienated from their own nourishment. Ideally, food should help keep us pleasantly healthy and alive, and although taste is important, it should not render nutritional value an irrelevancy to us. Our current system, however, produces many foods whose ingredients are merely tolerated by or toxic...
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The negative political reaction of the American Beverage Association to the possibility of a federal tax on soft drinks is disingenuous and motivated by greed masquerading as political principle. The association, whose members include PepsiCo and Coca-cola, ran an anti-soda tax advertisement entitled “Give Me a Break” during the Super Bowl, attempting to send...
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