by Amanda Read Sheik | Apr 15, 2015 | Academic Freedom, Politics, World Views
Thomas Jefferson drew the line of injury at breaking his leg or picking his pocket, but today this is offensive: “I ask you to consider both sides, read the bill, talk to your friends, talk to your family, do some research and come up with your own decision concerning...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Apr 2, 2015 | Culture, World Views
“It’s amazing to watch them all grow up, but to have one come back in your life on a day when you really need it – that’s really incredible.” – Dr. Michael Shannon A doctor caught in a flaming automobile accident was rescued...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Mar 26, 2015 | Academic Freedom, Culture, World Views
“In fact, speech deemed ‘offensive’ is often the speech that needs to be protected most,” writes Amy Lutz in an article about Muslim students protesting the University of Missouri’s screening of the film American Sniper. Lutz notes...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Mar 23, 2015 | Culture, Politics, Style
Political correctness is an exercise in punishing the literate for the sins of the illiterate. Those who are informed are able to acknowledge that while the farthingale (“hoop skirt”) style that frequented centuries gone by reflects an impracticality that...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Mar 20, 2015 | Culture, World Views
Last fall, musician Nick Jonas talked to Wendy Williams about his previously chaste lifestyle: I think that, you know, [the purity ring] was an important part of my childhood, and it was that. And I think as I grew up and sort of figured out what was important to me...
