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The Briefing

Analog Parents and Digital Teens... Politics without labels?... Ackman seeks to salvage a profit in Mega-Bookstores with Barnes and Noble Bid... Barnes and Borders? Bookstore Merger Proposed... And Murmurs of Primary challenge to Obama ...

December 9, 2010

Coed Quarters & Free Birth Control–The New Campus Culture?

The campus of George Washington University must be an interesting place to be -- and it looks like it may quickly become a lot more interesting. Consider these opening words from a report in The Washington Post: "The long-eroding boundaries that once ...

December 9, 2010

The Briefing

Remembering John Lenon and The Beatles... The Death of Elizabeth Edwards... A necessary censoring in the House... The Divorce Industrial Process... And Extreme Makeover: Criminal Court Edition ...

December 8, 2010

Transgressing the Transgressive–Why Modern Art No Longer Shocks

The great code word for art meant to scandalize is "transgressive." The term was well-established by the end of the 1960s, when artists sought to scandalize middle-class morality by "transgressing" moral boundaries. Artists and writers began pushing ...

December 8, 2010

The Dangerous Worlds of Analog Parents with Digital Teens

Sunday's edition of The New York Times gave front-page attention to the problem of adolescent bullying on the Internet. There can be no question that the Internet and the explosion of social media have facilitated the arrival of a new and deeply sini ...

December 8, 2010

The Briefing

A look back on Pearl Harbor.. A Retreat from Marriage... Noah's Ark... And Tax Cuts ...

December 7, 2010

Who’s Afraid of Noah’s Ark?

A proposal to build a theme park that would feature a life-size replica of Noah's Ark has set off a controversy in Kentucky that is worth watching. Within days, the controversy had spread to the pages of The New York Times and USA Today. So, who's a ...

December 7, 2010

The Retreat from Marriage — A Recipe for Disaster

If you were determined to consign a population to poverty and any number of social pathologies, how might you do it? If your design is to extend the effects of these pathologies and pains to successive generations, what might be your plan? The answer ...

December 7, 2010

The Briefing

Youth Suspected as Cartel Hit Man... Civil Unions Advance in Illinois... A Bill could limit bake sales... And in Pakistan, Christianity earns a Death Sentence ...

December 6, 2010

The Briefing

House Censures Rep. Charles Rangel... The Movement of Liberal Christians... WikiLeaks... And a look at Human Sinfulness ...

December 3, 2010

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