Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D.

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The hysteria about sexual misconduct changes everything. I, for example, will no longer hold office hours in my office. I will meet with students—male and female alike, so as not to discriminate against females—in the commons area of the department office, where there are witnesses. To every action there is an opposite and equal reaction.

To the editor:

Congress just gave President Donald Trump and the wealthy of our nation a Christmas present, while putting a chunk of coal in the average American’s holiday stocking. Instead of handling tax reform with kid gloves and truly reviewing it, Republican members of Congress emulated the Democrats when they pushed through Obamacare.

Polls and news stories indicate that a majority of American citizens, large corporations, and major representatives from the medical field are against the tax bill in its current form. Republican lawmakers even dismissed analyses by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office and other economists that the large tax cuts in the bill will increase our nation’s debt and bring economic instability.

Congress blithely marched ahead, firmly resolved to give Trump and the Republicans a win. Someone remind them that they are not playing a game. With the serious impact of tax reform on everyone, and just the size of the tax bill, who knows what American taxpayers will be hit with? Take the time to consider your constituents who are wondering why they voted for you.

— Carol R. Strand, Grayslake

“The President has accomplished some absolutely historic things during this past year.” Thank you Charlie Kirk of Turning Points USA. Sadly, the Fake Mainstream Media will NEVER talk about our accomplishments in their end of year reviews. We are compiling a long & beautiful list.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 22, 2017

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Quadrophenia (1973). This may be the best album ever made.

On the academic front, questions about belief in God lie at the interface between philosophy and theology, yet philosophers and theologians come to the subject with very different expectations. The prevailing tide of contemporary analytic philosophy tends to be strongly naturalistic, and any reference to the supernatural will cause many readers to switch off. One task of the believing philosopher, as I see it, is to try to open the minds of secular readers to the immense riches of the religious culture that has come down to us—a culture whose texture used to be deeply woven into the conceptual fabric of Western thought, but which in many cases has scarcely touched the education or upbringing of younger generation intellectuals, at least in Western Europe. (In North America, the problem is rather different, not so much of ignorance of religious culture, but of a marked polarization between its supporters and its critics.)

(John Cottingham, Why Believe? [London: Continuum, 2009], x)