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Pop Culture’s Complicity in Sexual Harassment

Complicity. The word sounds vaguely menacing. Even if we’re not quite sure what complicity means, it sounds … bad. To be complicit, Merriam-Webster’s dictionary says,

Culture

Culture Clips: The Most Hated Man in Nerd-dom?

Luke almost didn’t come back. Mark Hamill portrayed Luke Skywalker in the original Star Wars trilogy, launching him into the kind of superstardom few ever

Culture

Crowdsourcing the Future?

We do indeed live in a Brave New World. And even though things haven’t yet turned out quite as bleak and dystopian as Aldous Huxley’s

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Culture Clips: Train Up a Child …

It may not be as famous as John 3:16, but the counsel in Proverbs 22:6 is right up there when it comes to most-frequently quoted

Tech

The iGen Techy Blues

They don’t call them the iGeneration for nothing. Today’s young people, those born between 1995 and 2012, are most often referred to as “Generation Z.”

Culture

The Internet: 2017’s Newest Brain?

As a former high school English and Spanish teacher, I’ve seen the pros and the woes of technology in the classroom. I was never one

Culture

Culture Clips: Emmys Put on a Red Shawl

Back in the day, television was considered something of a cultural unifier—the very definition of mass entertainment that would serve as a focal point for

Plugged In Parent’s Guide to Today’s Technology

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