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Nick Jonas Confuses Lack of Self-Governance with Adulthood

Nick Jonas Confuses Lack of Self-Governance with Adulthood

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...

Moral imaginations, blood libel and the meaning of words

by Amanda Read Sheik | Jan 16, 2011 | Politics, The Washington Times Communities, World Views

“What is government if words have no meaning?” Such was the question that Jared Loughner asked Representative Gabrielle Giffords at an event in 2007. Unsatisfied by Giffords’ response (or warranted lack thereof), Loughner targeted her with an apparently vengeful...

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