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The Mantei Te’o Hoax: Reaping What We Sow in Our Hero Worship Culture

Why is the Mantei T’eo story so compelling? As Collin Cowherd said on ESPN this morning, this is only a story about some college kid messing up on the internet. Yet, as so often is the case, Cowherd is wrong about this one. When this story first broke, it was one of the more shocking […]

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Democracy Without Dialogue; How Exactly is this Supposed to Work?

At what point is a dialogue impossible?  What are the consequences if the various sides in an argument cannot find any common ground?   These are the questions that came to my mind as a consequence of several stories making the rounds in the past couple of days.  And sadly, I don’t have a good place […]

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