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What does faith say about politics?

Dan Sehlhorst | Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Mahatma Gandhi once said, “Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.” This notion has consistently held great truth in American politics for decades. Religion is a primary motivator in U.S. politics, especially for conservatives since the realignment of the American South over the second half of

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Lead, kindly light

Dan Sehlhorst | Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Early in the morning of Feb. 27, I found myself unable to sleep. As I tossed and turned, I made the typically uneventful decision to check my email, during which I discovered one of the most heart-wrenching moments in my lifetime. On a small screen, I read through fuzzy, half asleep eyes the saddest message

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Is Obama giving away the store?: An answer

Dan Sehlhorst | Tuesday, February 10, 2015

After reading Christopher Newton’s Feb. 6 response to my previous column, “Is Obama giving away the store?,” I humorously gather he believes my only success was to give it a clever title. As I read his criticisms of my analysis, however, I notice some weaknesses in his arguments as well. Newton notes that many of the

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Is Obama giving away the store?

Dan Sehlhorst | Tuesday, January 27, 2015

When it comes to foreign policy, President Obama is charting some new roads since his party took a thrashing in November of last year. In the past few months, there has been a surge in alarmism and hand-wringing among conservatives regarding recent foreign policy moves he has made. If this panic were appropriate, it would

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Love, drugs and Charles Barkley: healing racial tensions

Dan Sehlhorst | Thursday, December 11, 2014

Martin Luther King, Jr., writing in his book “Strength to Love,” declared this beautiful sentiment: “Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” Hate tears down society

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Why we need joy in education

Dan Sehlhorst | Thursday, December 4, 2014

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” Aristotle wrote these words many centuries ago, and to this day I believe they hold great wisdom. My educative experience in the United States, however, has raised questions about our commitment to an intellectual, social and moral self-cultivation

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Addressing a void of leadership in America

Dan Sehlhorst | Thursday, November 6, 2014

Do you hear the collective nationwide sigh of relief? The midterm elections have passed. After months of analysis, predictions and inexorable campaigns, votes have been cast and the talking heads are deciphering the results and brandishing new prognostications. Although the Republican Party ran away with a sweeping victory, the GOP should be careful not to interpret

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Intergenerational injustice

Dan Sehlhorst | Thursday, October 9, 2014

Have you seen “The West Wing?” I believe the show is one of the greatest television series ever created. In the second season, creator Aaron Sorkin wrote a flashback to the beginning of the first presidential campaign of President Jed Bartlet. Played by Martin Sheen, Bartlet declares a beautiful sentiment “If fidelity to freedom of

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The nonsensical immigration debate

Dan Sehlhorst | Thursday, September 25, 2014

When Rick Santorum, a 2012 presidential candidate and potential 2016 presidential candidate, visited campus last week, I found his answers to questions about immigration policy very troubling. For Santorum, the push for increased legal immigration is “a horrible confluence” of the Democratic Party and big business. From his perspective, leaders of these groups are “looking

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Nudes and Yik Yak in a desensitized culture

Dan Sehlhorst | Thursday, September 11, 2014

Nudity. This conspicuous subject was launched to the pinnacle of all social media spheres as September rolled in. The impetus for this was a group of unidentified hackers succeeding in an unprecedented breach of Apple’s online storage service, iCloud. These hackers leaked nude pictures of famous celebrities for the world to see. Around the same

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