Last week I was lucky enough to stumble across Nathan Jurgenson’s great essay Digital Dualism and the Fallacy of Web Objectivity.  Jurgenson defines digital dualism as the belief that the “real” and “digital” worlds are totally separate from each other and operate according to different rules.  He believes this conviction spawns the belief that the web [...]

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Well it looks like most people’s predictions have flown out the window and now the college football world is left once again in a confusing mess regarding the BCS system. How is it that one-loss teams like Oklahoma State (who lost this past weekend to unranked Iowa State) are still ranked ahead of an undefeated team in [...]

Recently President Obama and Democrats in Congress have met much controversy over a proposal to broaden the exemption from new rules that require health insurance plans to cover contraceptives for women free of charge. After protests by Roman Catholic bishops, charities, schools and universities, the White House is considering a change that would grant a broad exemption to health plans [...]

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The week’s best links that we didn’t get to: 1. A beautiful interview with philosopher Fred Neuhouser on inequality, Rousseau, and the quest to improve the world 2. Should we have a right to education, healthcare, and housing? 3. David Brooks on the vanity of the response to the Penn State scandal 4. Defectors from [...]