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This is a collection of curious articles for students who have taken POS 101 - and would like to keep reading and thinking about some of the issues we discussed (plus some we missed).
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Sunday, April 3, 2016
See if you can
take with a smile this provocation from Carlin Romano, professor of philosophy
and humanities, who laments the waning of reading among American college
students.
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