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    Sara S. Frear

     In the early 1990s I worked for a foster care agency in New York City.  It was my job as a “homefinder” to interview potential foster parents and assess whether they could provide a nurturing home for traumatized children.  The work was an intimate education in human nature, from its most generous to its most…

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  • Back to Kansas from the Land of Oz

    OK ya’ll. I’m going to travel back in time and to another culture. The place is Kansas where Dorothy and Toto originally made their way to the magical Land of Oz via a tornado. Imagine that I am Dorothy, but I don’t have Toto the dog (I do have a cat, however, as my colleagues…

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    Marie A. Mater

    September 29, 2015
  • HERO – The Houston Equal Rights Ordinance

    Today the Houston Chronicle urged us to read the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance (HERO), which will be on the ballot in Houston this November. I have done so and find the ordinance to be an embarrassment. HERO takes a contentious social issue and does nothing but immerse it in an absurd brew of unintelligent definitions and unresolved tensions.…

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    Anthony M. Joseph

    September 20, 2015
  • Top Ten Books that Aren’t on Most “Great Books” Lists

    The philosopher and educator Mortimer Adler was perhaps the first to recognize the importance of preserving the integrity of what he called the “Great Books” of the Western tradition. Since then lists of great books from Harold Bloom’s “The Western Canon” to The Greatest Books.org have attempted to capture the best and most significant works in…

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    David J. Davis

    September 8, 2015
  • Intoxicated by Easy Money

    Intoxicated by Easy Money

    A while ago, I wrote about the influx of Chinese money into Nicaragua to build a transcontinental canal. However, beyond infrastructure and construction concerns, people are beginning to have other worries: “The townspeople (in Nicaragua) haven’t seen any signs of canal workers in months. And the work that was done was marginal. A handful of…

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    Lisa Carroll-Davis

    August 25, 2015
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