Burning Down the Constitution as We Lay the Foundation for a New Guantanamo Bay
The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) is a recurring federal law that has been adopted on an annual basis for each of the past 48 years. Broadly speaking, it seeks to establish the budget for...
View ArticleFacebook: Complicit or Unwitting Accomplice?
In response to seeing a friend’s Facebook relationship status go from “in a relationship” to “single” last night, I found myself curious. Does Facebook play a role in the destruction of relationships,...
View ArticleYou Know It’s a Good Book When …
Twenty years ago, in my senior year of high school, the English honors teacher, Mr. Jeffrey Naruszewicz, ended the class period by going around the room asking each us what university we were planning...
View ArticleThe Naruszewicz Files: Books That Changed My Thinking on Matters Related to Race
In a previous post entitled “You Know It’s a Good Book When,” I shared with you a piece of advice once given to me by my old English teacher, Jeffrey Naruszewicz. In short, he encouraged me to always...
View ArticleAmerican Women: Second Class Citizens?
In 1917, Jeannette Rankin, an avowed pacifist and member of the Republican party,[1] became the first woman elected to serve in the United States Congress. Since that time, only 275 other women have...
View ArticleJohn Perkins and the Road to Galatians 2:20
Just nine hours ago, on the eve of this nation’s 28th annual celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., I had the privilege of standing near an elderly black gentleman by the name of Dr. John Perkins....
View Article“Sexless” Babies and the Rise of “Gender Creativity”
In 2007, Beck Laxton, a self-professed “radical feminist” gave birth to a baby named Sasha. And for five years, Laxton and her partner worked to keep the sex of their baby a secret, in the hopes of...
View ArticleCan You Trust an Atheist?
The scarlet "A" serves at the sign of the New Atheists public awareness campaign. Do you trust an atheist? Would you vote for one if he or she was running for office? What if their competition were...
View ArticleWe May No Longer Call Them “Bastards,” but the Real Question is: Do We Treat...
In 1965, Daniel Moynihan, then working for the United States Department of Labor, issued a report in which he found that 24% of black children and 3% of white children were born out of wedlock. At the...
View ArticleWhere were You when You just had Sex?
As the ever-expanding world of social media appears to be systematically eliminating anything close to what we might have once called “privacy,” it should probably come as no surprise that there is now...
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