People around the world are protesting the French Senate’s decision to pass two amendments curbing Muslim women’s ability to wear a hijab. The hijab, a headscarf some Muslim women wear, has been a subject of controversy in France for decades. In 2004, students were banned from wearing the hijab in French public schools. Later, in 2010, France banned people from…
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Russian-born Artemi Panarin is easy to root for. He’s got something of an underdog’s persona, which is odd considering he is arguably the best winger in the entire National Hockey League. Maybe the underdog thing can be attributed to his slight build and his goofball attitude. Or it could be the videos he posts of “hockey training” with his Jack…
Metastasizing further and further into our daily lives, cancel culture has become a governing force throughout entertainment, business, politics and journalism. Constantly guarding against a deviation from their accepted perspective, use of language or morality, the cancel mob selects new targets at 5G speed. Once selected, the target is publicly shamed, ruined and banished. Often, targets of cancel culture are…
Ramble On: A Conversation with an American Expatriate Living in Portugal
Photo: E.V. Legters left the U.S. for Portugal in 2017. Credit: https://www.essential-business.pt/2020/08/26/portuguese-citizenship-applications-at-all-time-high/ E.V. Legters is an American fiction writer and former English teacher. In 2017, she left America for Coimbra, Portugal. The U.S. Department of State estimates that Legters is one of 10 million Americans living abroad, and one of nearly 7,000 living in Portugal. Last week, Editor Harrison Kass…