Opinion Forum

Is the NFL Bad for Women’s Health?

April 4th, 2011

By Dr. Jim Taylor Just prior to the Super Bowl in 1993, a news conference was held by a coalition of women’s groups informing reporters of substantial evidence that domestic violence rose significantly (as much as 40 percent) on Super Bowl Sunday. The subsequent flurry of media attention resulted in this news becoming a “fact” […]

Articles written by Dr. Jim Taylor
Tags: domestic, fan, fanatics, football, games, research, statistics, violence
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Nuclear Legacies

January 27th, 2011

By Jan Barry We may all be alive today thanks to two far-sighted women who died within days of each other this month. Imagine how many people would be living, if any, had the US-Soviet nuclear arms race exploded into World War III. Half a century ago, when the threat of such a war loomed […]

Articles written by Jan Barry
Tags: cancer, Cold War, fallout, nuclear weapons, Reiss, research, treaty, Wilson
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Why I Write

March 18th, 2010

By Brianna Aubin Last summer, I entered a period of intellectual transition. No, it wasn’t over health care and it wasn’t over politics. Ironically enough, this period began completely by accident and had absolutely nothing to do with anything going on in the world today. In essence, what happened was that I was talking to […]

Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: Ayn Rand, Objectivism, philosophy, research, rights, socialism
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