A Progressive on the Prairie

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Personal Remembrances of the Kent State Shootings, 43 Years Later (“Students today … don’t see protesting as part of the First Amendment. I think maybe they are desensitized; I don’t know. What have they experienced in their young lives that would cause you to stand up and be willing [...]

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Tuesday is World Book Night

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The Hell of American Day Care (“The United States has always been profoundly uncomfortable with the idea of supporting child care outside the home, for reasons that inevitably trace back to beliefs over the proper role of women and mothers”) (via)

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Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

Seeing and believing (“A large element of rationalist doubt certainly accompanies the decline of interest in the paranormal, driven primarily by … cultural and, latterly, technological factors. Yet underlying that doubt itself is the growing incredulity with which people evaluate anything.”)

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Women have written [...]

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The Last Letter (” I write this letter on behalf of us all—the human detritus your war has left behind, those who will spend their lives in unending pain and grief.”) (via)

Voices from Solitary: A Sentence Worse Than Death (“What nobody knew or suspected back then, not [...]

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Bestselling author (and Sioux Falls native) Sam Kean will discuss his latest book, The Violinist’s Thumb at the Main Branch of Siouxland Libraries from 7 to 8 p.m. Wednesday

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

Bibliocide (“Although they went through various editions, encyclopædias belong to a time when knowledge was owned by a [...]