Rachel Held Evans nails it: When asked by The Barna Group what words or phrases best describe Christianity, the top response among Americans ages 16-29 was “antihomosexual.” For a staggering 91 percent of non-Christians, […]
Getting hired and getting ahead: five important tips for the career-minded college student or recent grad
My alma mater, Wake Forest University, has a “career connectors” group on LinkedIn, and there’s currently a thread where one of the university’s career dev folks asks for some input on a […]
Cursèd be my cubicle
Two flimsy gray walls, three filing cabinets and one rarely used dry-erase board make up the landscape of my work cubicle. My mind travels often to places I have been and those […]
Growing up with September 11: a Millennial's search for self-identity
by Tom Shortell I was scrawny, zit-faced sophomore sitting in Spanish 2 Honors when Principal Abatemarco informed my high school what had happened in Lower Manhattan the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. […]
The American Parliament: our nation’s 10 political parties
Part two in a series. Forgive me for abstracting and oversimplifying a bit, but one might argue that American politics breaks along the following 10 lines: Social Conservatives Neocons Business Conservatives Traditional […]
Take a stand and make your own New Year's anti-resolutions
by Lisa Barnard I’ll say it. I hate New Year’s Resolutions. Mostly because, let’s be honest, I either forget about them after about a month (…okay, a week) or am just such […]
Boomers, part 5: Woodstock nation…
The arrival of The Beatles in February of 1964 and the subsequent cultural changes they fostered (whether consciously or not) paralleled momentous changes in the American social and political landscape. From 1964-70 […]
Boomers, part 4: "…that old crazy Asian war…"
The Boomer generation’s view of war and the purposes of war was and is the result of United States involvement in Vietnam. Unlike subsequent generations, Boomers (at least males and tangentially females) […]
Boomers, part 3: Beatle and other manias…
Ceci n’est pas Pink #@#@^&%$ Floyd… Historians often argue that dates should not be the focus of history. Hell, much of the last quarter century has been dominated by intellectuals arguing that […]
Boomers, part 2: in which Beaver decides to be fab…
America’s First Family, Boomer parents’ edition The Boomers are the first TV generation. We’ve been intimates of television since its infancy as the mass medium of choice for Americans. Because of television’s […]
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