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July 2018 Book Reviews

It’s finally time for some book reviews! I have decided that I’m just going to share a few of the books I’ve read in the past three odd months (my last review post was April’s) If you want to see everything I’ve read since then, go check out my Goodreads page! Full Disclosure by Dee […]

Health Update: May/June/July 2018

I am going to admit something to you right away – I’m starting this but have no idea when it’ll get finished and posted! With my OH’s graduation and party on Sunday, my parents coming into town today and donation boxes/a dog park run to do before they get here, I’m just not sure how […]

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I’m sharing this post – a Letter to Lyme Disease – that is especially fitting for me lately. I hope you’ll take the time to click over and read it as it speaks to what those of us with chronic pain go through emotionally as well as physically. ~Laura

May Recap and June Goals 2018

I feel like I did pretty good on my goals this month considering how many days I spent stuck on the couch. I do have several goals for this coming month, but as a few of them are super easy/quick I’m hoping that I’ll be able to get most of them done! […]

Writing Prompts: Character Development (Harrison)

It’s been ages since I did one of these but I’m having to partially re-work one of my side characters. The time period is late 1890’s, set in the East Coast where Society is still rigid (more lax than it would have been in Europe but stricter than out West). Photo by Angelina Litvin on Unsplash Harrison James […]

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The University of Virginia in an Uproar Again—Over a Single Faculty Hire August 17, 2018

With the memory of last August’s violent alt-right protest and counter-protest still raw, the University of Virginia is again under siege. The new invasion actually began a few weeks ahead of schedule. “As grim anniversary nears,” the Chronicle of Higher Education began its coverage in late July, and Inside Higher Ed also emphasized “the approaching […]

John Rosenberg

‘Social Justice’ is Overrunning the University of Texas August 15, 2018

The latest racket in higher education, evident at my alma mater, the University of Texas at Austin, is the disturbing proliferation of “social justice” as a degree program, a course topic, an academic emphasis, and even as a prerequisite in campus job descriptions. “Social justice” is a seemingly innocuous term with no established definition. Many […]

Mark Pulliam

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Vox’s Consistent Errors on Campus Speech, Explained August 16, 2018

Musa al-Gharbi is a Paul F. Lazarsfeld Fellow in Sociology at Columbia University, and managing editor at Heterodox Academy. The Free Speech Project (FSP), based out of Georgetown University, attempts to document “incidents in which Free Speech has been challenged or compromised in recent years, and collect analysis from various points of view of the.. […]

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Jessica Good on The Ups and Downs of Multiculturalism: Half Hour of Heterodoxy #31 August 15, 2018

Jessica Good is a social psychologist at Davidson College. She received her PhD in social psychology from Rutgers University and has taught at Davidson since 2011. Her research focuses on stereotyping and discrimination. I invited her to the show to talk about her new paper on multiculturalism because multiculturalism is a contentious topic in the […]

Chris Martin

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