Mobility, meritocracy and other myths
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Meritocracy is a legitimizing myth created to distract people from the question of whether the system of power those meritocratic functionaries serve is just.
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Trump campaign threatens legal action over Virginia GOP primary oath
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The Trump Virginia campaign chairman signaled Wednesday that legal action is possible if the party doesn’t reverse course on a required primary voter oath.
Donald Trump slams Virginia Republicans over primary loyalty oath
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Those who wish to vote in the Virginia Republican Party presidential primary will have to sign a pledge that they are a member of the GOP.
The next frontier: UVA architecture professors, students design for the Arctic
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University of Virginia architecture and landscape architecture undergraduate and graduate students spent 10 days on Norwegian Arctic islands 800 miles north of the Arctic Circle.
Carl Sagan and the Beginning of History
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Carl Sagan is not usually remembered as a political prophet, except possibly in warning of the dangers of nuclear war and drug criminalization.
Asymmetrical war against the Muslim world
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The demagogic exaggeration of the “terrorist threat,” which was the centerpiece of the last Republican debates, is easily deflated with just a moment’s thought.
Augusta County: Where the domestic terrorists have won
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You want to know how weird things are here in the Augusta County area? This is pretty weird, I promise.
UVA study: Duration of concussion symptoms as significant as severity
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Sports concussions continue to garner attention and the conversation will continue over the holidays with the release of the new feature film, “Concussion.”
Inconvenient Truth: Why don’t we hear anything about Al Gore?
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Al Gore, one of the first recognizable faces of the environmental movement, sent ripples throughout the political world with An Inconvenient Truth in 2006.
EMU economics student named one of ’20 Under 35 Changing the World’
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Alex Miller, an economics major at EMU, was recognized by Mennonite Economic Development Association as one of “20 Under 35 Changing the World.”
