Year: 2013

Secret Agent Woman

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Jennifer Shewmaker, a psychology professor at Abilene Christian University, has a blog post blaming the Steubenville rape case in part on objectification of women. You should go read it, but first read about the Steubenville matter if you haven’t already. I have some theories about what would possess teenagers to create videos of themselves mocking a … Read more

“Governor brings religion into the public sphere”

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KS governor Sam Brownback. Photo credit: Brent Wistrom, The Wichita Eagle Fearing terms is odd. But in terms of terms to fear I’d suggest “public square” and “public sphere.”When it comes to church and state separationthese words are oft used for equivocationof an individual’s right to express a thoughtand a government’s ideological onslaught,to swap the … Read more