If a Dr. Seuss book offends us, why not pluck it out? Canceling problematic media properties provides us with a way to talk about the complicated nature of desire. A copy of the book And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, by Dr. Seuss, rests in a chair, March 1, 2021, in Walpole, Massachusetts. Dr. Seuss Enterprises, the business that preserves and protects the author and illustrator s legacy, announced on his birthday, March 2, 2021, that it would cease publication of several children s titles, including And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street and If I Ran the Zoo, because of insensitive and racist imagery. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
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Mrs. Clinton, who knows a thing or two about phoniness, praised Meghan Markle’s decision to speak of her “mental health” before tens of millions of her very closest counselors. Mrs. Clinton said it was brave of her, but brave was not the word for it; exhibitionist would have been better, together, perhaps, with scheming, opportunist, histrionic, self-serving, egotistical, and shallow, amongst other things. If there were a Nobel Prize for self-pity, Ms. Markle would have been a strong contender rather like Mrs. Clinton herself.
The very idea of mental health as being anything other than the absence of raving madness (which undoubtedly exists) is an invitation to superficiality. Health itself is a difficult enough and contentious subject, and the World Health Organization’s definition of it, that it is not merely the absence of disease but the presence of complete physical, psychological, and social well-being, is a godsend to totalitaria
Historic churches from every state
By Erin Joslyn of Stacker |
Historic churches from every state
The United States has provided a refuge for persecuted religious groups ever since the Puritans boarded the Mayflower and set sail for the New World in 1620. Roger Williams later broke away from the Plymouth Colony and established the country s first Baptist congregation in Providence, R.I. Quakers settled in Pennsylvania, while Catholics, financed by Britain s Lord Baltimore, escaped to what would eventually become the state of Maryland.
Since the colonial period, churches have served an important role not only in politics and history but also in the creation of a new, distinctly American architectural landscape. Today, the U.S. is home to more than 300 different religions and roughly 350,000 congregations attending services in a vast array of ecclesiastical buildings throughout the nation.