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On Guilty Pleasures

Let’s do a thought experiment. If I say, “guilty pleasure TV,” what shows come to mind? My guess: reality shows like “America’s Next Top Model” or “The Bachelor.” What about films? Probably anything IMDb labels a “chick flick.” Books? “Chick lit.” And has anyone gone to a boy band concert lately? I’m sensing a pattern […]

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Students protesting against a Jefferson County Board of Education proposal to review the curriculum, September 23, 2014. (RJ Sangosti, The Denver Post)

Patriotism, Progress, and Defining America’s Past

  When the high school students in Denver took to the streets to protest the changes to make their history curriculums more patriotic, they were making a point that, as Eugene Debs put it, “intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization.” Progress, from this viewpoint, is created by people who actively disagree with the system […]

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Putting Gender in the Vagina

This year’s V-Day Claremont production of The Vagina Monologues aims to empower its actors and audience through performance—a performance striving to remind everyone that being a woman is not just about the vagina.

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