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Sacha Irick

Unplug Yourself to Engage Your World

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Art by Sacha Irick Do you ever look up from your phone and see the sun a little lower and the people around you are different from when you last looked? If so, you’ve caught yourself in phone limbo. Our obsession with technology, with either video games or social networking, is dangerous. The effects can already be seen in younger generations, our siblings, our family … [Read more...] about Unplug Yourself to Engage Your World

The Realism Behind #JesuisCharlie

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Art by Sacha Irick The phrase “Je suis Charlie,” meaning “I am Charlie,” has gone viral around the world since two weeks ago when a radical Islamic group of terrorists attacked the Charlie Hebdo newspaper office in Paris, France. Since then, more than 40 presidents and prime ministers marched together with more than a million people to defend and promote what this phrase … [Read more...] about The Realism Behind #JesuisCharlie

Charlie Hebdo Shootings Revive Cultural Questions of Old

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Art by Sacha Irick I am not Charlie. I don’t expect Muslims to be either. We rightly regard the massacre of 10 journalists as a monstrous tragedy, but our reaction to it betrays a disconnect from the worldview of about two billion people. If the offices of the Westboro Baptist Church were blown up by a lunatic, no one in this country would claim solidarity with them and … [Read more...] about Charlie Hebdo Shootings Revive Cultural Questions of Old