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More than paying taxes
By Jakob Miller | November 7When Jesus called us to do more than just render taxes unto Caesar.
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A matter of grit
By Jakob Miller | October 27Recently, the Supreme Court has issued major rulings on immigration enforcement, abortion, elections and freedom of religion and freedom of speech protections for artists. So of course, I want to talk to you about Idaho house construction and the definition of the word “water.” In 2007, Michael ...
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On civic life
By Jakob Miller | October 6When Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville visited the United States, he was blown away by how active American citizens were in their community. What might surprise us today, however, is what he thought made a good citizen. Instead of focusing on voting turnout rates, he marveled at Americans’ “associations ...
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Bacon and Balkanization: National Pork Producers Council v. Ross
By Jakob Miller | November 7In 2018 California passed Proposition 12, which prohibits the sale of pork within the state that was raised in a “cruel manner.” Among other things, this means that bacon sold in California has to come from a pig that had at least 24 square feet of living space.So far, so simple. California voters ...
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Are learning styles real?
By Jakob Miller | October 26We’re all familiar with the idea of learning styles –- some of us are visual learners, while others learn best when reading or writing. It’s a common idea — one review of the literature found over thirty different systems of classifying learners, each with their own lists of categories — and ...
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Challenge others in your community
By Jakob Miller | May 2In one notable study, researchers played clips from a football game to fans. To no one’s surprise, calls by the referee for their team were seen as right and fair. Calls against their team? The referee was blind — or bribed. That dishonesty is harmless in sports, but we’re about to have a more ...
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Avoiding 'us vs. them'
By Jakob Miller | February 28Recently, Gawker — a news source that you could be forgiven or perhaps applauded for not being familiar with — announced they had Senator Kyrsten Sinema's Social Security number. The benefit this might offer to our nation's civil discourse, aside from showing others how to obtain the same information, ...
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Politics are cold, dead
By Jakob Miller | October 4I think most academics require little persuasion to talk about the importance of their discipline. Most of us can easily wax on for quite some time about how fundamental our area of study is. So it feels odd to tell people that one of my favorite descriptions of politics compares my scholarly passion ...
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Is social media censorship legal?
By Jakob Miller | February 22Most of us have heard of “First Amendment rights” and “free speech.” The actual ideas wrapped up in those terms, however, are far more intricate than most people credit.
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Convulsion, changes and calamities
By Jakob Miller | October 25The first presidential debate was relatively widely panned. Large stretches of time were completely unintelligible as the two candidates talked over one another and threw personal attacks. Partisans on both sides announced their candidate’s victory while commentators bemoaned the lack of civility ...
