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…centuries-old embedded cultural problem with permissive violence against women. “It’s an English jurisprudential culture,” Biden explained this week, “a white man’s culture. It’s got to change.” “English jurisprudential culture” is,…

…most women change their names, saying “anecdotally, ‘I didn’t like my last name’ comes up a lot.” I also doubt that many women don’t like their previous names, though I…

…seven schools with ties to the Confederacy. And not just those named after rebel leaders, like Jefferson Davis High. They also changed the name of Lanier Middle School, named after…

…a California judge. An attorney named Andrew Wallet served as a co-conservator from 2008 until his resignation in 2019, to help oversee hee Forbes-estimated $60 million estate. A look at…

…attitudes about correctness. When I was teaching English, it was anathema to use “their” for a singular antecedent (as in “Every citizen should know their rights”). Now my English major…

…instruct pilots in dogfighting techniques. This was precisely the situation during the early years of Vietnam, and it led to devastating American losses, and ultimately to the creation of Topgun,…

…of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the election of pro- and anti-war Vietnam vets like John McCain and John Kerry to Congress). McLaughlin correctly rejects interpretations of the song that…

…front. Kissinger’s Stewardship of the Vietnam War This “Ambivalent Superpower” chapter sums up the intellectual-political journey that culminated in Kissinger’s stewardship of the Vietnam War and his signature work, détente….

…occasionally paraphrase President George W. Bush from one of his speeches, remarking that our God is the God who named the stars, and immediately noting that 2/3 of all star-names…

…who were drafted in Vietnam with individuals who received a high draft number and were not required to serve. This study concludes that Vietnam veterans earned significantly less over their…

…lawyer named F. Ray Mouton, Jr., and another priest, a psychiatrist named Michael Peterson, who directed a hospital for troubled priests and knew a great deal, to conduct an extensive…

“People who give their kids weird names are unsophisticated morons,” I thought to myself when I was 23 years old and busy substitute-teaching a class full of kids named Brysalynn…

The next time you hear someone describe antisemitism as a problem of the uneducated, suggest they flip through the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). The august dictionary recently published a slew…

…minimum language skills (English or French) and at least two years’ work experience in the skilled trade the applicant is applying for. Since January 1, 2015, Canada has further improved…

A version of this article originally appeared in the Southern Baptist TEXAN and was posted on Baptist Press. SAN ANTONIO — As an Air Force pararescueman in Vietnam, Doug Brinson…

…supposedly about the creation of professional soccer in England in the 1880s. The problem is that “The English Game” is barely about the English game at all; soccer quickly fades…

…us in that task. Take, for example, the common law doctrine against slavery. Common Law Doctrine and Slavery In 1569, an Englishman named Cartwright was charged with battery for beating…

…Putnam. This is Putnam’s stick, and it’s everyone’s stick since the Hellenistic poets. There’s a deep silenus about it. Young people are more connected with each other than they’ve ever…

…why the names for all the planets are offensive. Naming the planets after Greek gods just reinforces patriarchy on a cosmic level. How can NASA truly achieve its goal of…

…whatever happens next. Vietnam Syndrome Lite If we’re living through 20th Century Lite—a re-enactment, in miniature, of all the errors of the last century—then this is Vietnam Syndrome Lite. The…

…were Hoa, a market-dominant minority group of ethnic Chinese living in Vietnam. They were wealthier than ethnic Vietnamese, lived apart from them, were generally seen as exploiting Vietnam, yet were…

…with the civil rights movement and Vietnam competing as the fields of Pulitzer play for aggressive reporters, writers, and photographers. Herr got himself sent to Vietnam as a reporter for…

…executive at APCO Worldwide, Ariuna Namsrai. “Ariuna, my friend Chris Steele from London is in town and working on Russian matters as always,” Winer emailed Namsrai on Nov. 20, 2014….

…make the best peace that could be had, and it ensured independence for Namibia and an end to both Cuban and South African military involvement in Angola and Namibia. Events…

…what you were saying. I did not take the name, I just named myself Cassius Clay, this is a honorable, Mohammed Ali, given to me by my religious leader and…

…regarding the names. For example, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, which can name infrastructure projects, may not name a building for a living person unless that person is…

…change the name of Robert E. Lee Elementary School, an historic building named after the Confederate general upon its completion in 1939. Kendall Pace, the school board president, said history…

…have to talk about the bees and the bees, the birds and the birds, the birds that look like bees, the bees that look like birds, and the bees that…

…post-Vietnam films without being mere mimicry of “pre-Vietnam.” For one thing, the film has many jokes that would never pass the Hays Code. Gus Grissom’s oft-repeated signature line uses the…

…commission to review the names of military installations and vessels after Confederate figures or victories. It’s called the Commission on the Naming of Items of the Department of Defense that…

In a motion filed in federal court on Thursday, CNN and several other media outlets requested that the court release the names and home addresses of all jurors in the…

…naming and labeling. Port City Brewery out of Alexandria, Virginia, honors the city’s historic role as an important mid-atlantic harbor. Three Notch’d Brewing Company in Charlottesville, Virginia, named after a…

…Baltimore Orioles: It may seem benign to name a franchise mascot after a bird, but the species acquired its name from its color’s resemblance to the coat of arms of…

…Spiders. Cleveland’s Team Has Gone By Many Names Baseball teams used to come and go, and even those with staying power used to change their names fairly often. Cleveland’s American…

…dour Christians who, according to Nathaniel Hawthorne, wore “sad-colored garments” or, in the words of the 19th-century English professor Moses Coit Tyler, “cultivated the grim and the ugly.” More recently,…

…most implementations and textbooks gleefully (or ignorantly) proceed to make.” Advanced Ninth Grade English Twenty minutes later, Tessa Bohonos is giving an English lesson to her class of advanced freshmen…