Exploring the Christian Themes in Martin Scorsese’s Selected Filmography
Martin Scorsese once stated, “My whole life has been movies and religion. That’s it. Nothing else.” Either centered on biblical stories or as backdrops to cultural [...]
Culture
Sea Stars in Peril
Walk along any stretch of the Northwest’s rocky coast before 2013 and you were sure to see bright purple and orange clinging to the shore’s igneous monoliths. Pisaster [...]
Love Yourself Enough to Free Yourself from Your Chains: Privilege and Liberation
I think many of us have often asked, when we saw someone being bullied as a child, what would make that person decide whether to lash out and become a bully themselves, or [...]
I Do Na-Zi A Problem: Why Most Cops Don’t Have to Be White Supremacists to Cause Serious Harm
Yet again, I’m called upon to redress strawmen, because unfortunately many reasonable people seem, against all efforts to the contrary, to hear something that those of us [...]
Breaking the Cycle of Street Harassment
For far too many women across the world, enduring street harassment is a fact of life. From getting catcalled to groped to followed home, there’s a good chance that even if [...]
Homeownership Trends: The Good and The Bad
I purchased my first home almost one year ago. Besides the steep learning curve of home financing, plumbing and electrical systems, and texturing walls, I have begun to pay [...]
The Effects of Title IX
The National Football League (NFL) boasts almost 1,700 players and, unsurprisingly, every player is male. Some professional sports in the United States have a women’s [...]
7 Reasons Why Objections to Identity Politics Are Nonsense
I normally don’t like list-based articles. They’re ways of effectively turning creative thought into an assembly line of pithy, separate insights, preventing the need for [...]
The Global Gag Rule is Back and Bigger Than Ever
Nearly 8 years ago, one of then-newly-inaugurated US president Barack Obama’s earliest executive orders reversed the global gag rule, a rule banning non-governmental [...]
Consuming News
Over 3.2 billion people accessed the internet in 2015. With the continual expansion of accessibility comes incredible volumes of information and misinformation. Fifty years [...]
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