Know Your Oligarchy
This week I learned a new word. The average person uses only 1000 words or so to convey meaning in daily speech. So I’m considering it...
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Christopher Strain
Jun 10, 20222 min read
Insurrection or Protest? Revisiting January 6
Was January 6, 2021, an attempted insurrection? A riot? A protest that got out of hand? Whatever we opt to call it, that day marked a...
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Christopher Strain
May 26, 202212 min read
How to Stop Mass Shootings
A March 2016 study in the American Journal of Medicine found that Americans are 25x more likely to die from gun homicide than people in...
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Christopher Strain
May 15, 20222 min read
I Remember Umpqua
I remember Umpqua. I remember what the President said afterwards. I remember East End Middle and Spanaway Junior High and Portland...
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Christopher Strain
Aug 30, 202110 min read
On Never Forgetting 9/11
I remember September 11, 2001. I remember it well. It was a Tuesday morning, still hurricane season in South Florida, where only a year...
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Christopher Strain
Jan 7, 20215 min read
Untied
When I type quickly, as I’ve been doing today, I sometimes write “Untied States of America,” rather than United States of America, and...
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Christopher Strain
Aug 16, 20203 min read
Justice for Cannon
There has been much outcry in the past few days over the shocking death of 5-year-old Cannon Hinnant, shot and killed last week in...
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Christopher Strain
May 18, 20206 min read
A Too-Soon History of the COVID-19 Epidemic
I’m no epidemiologist. What little I know about public health precautions I’ve learned from those who know a lot more than me (which...
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Christopher Strain
May 18, 20204 min read
A Message to the 2020 Graduates of the Wilkes Honors College of Florida Atlantic University
If I had been asked a few years ago to give a graduation speech, I would have filled it with pithy wisdom and inspiring quotations,...
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Christopher Strain
Apr 3, 202010 min read
2020 Florida Collegiate Honors Council Keynote Address
“In the Flo: Finding Light in the New Dark Ages,” presented at "SoFloMind: Reclaiming Hope and Change," 2020 Florida Collegiate Honors...
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Christopher Strain
Mar 16, 20192 min read
49 Prayer Mats
Three hours ago a group of people in Melbourne, Australia, took part in a vigil for the victims of yesterday's shootings in Christchurch,...
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Christopher Strain
Oct 27, 20181 min read
Small Comfort
I would be ever so slightly more comforted about the general state of awfulness in America if, after the racist slayings, attempted mail...
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Christopher B. Strain, Ph.D.
Oct 27, 20174 min read
After Vegas
Sept. 11, 2001, awakened me to the awfulness possible in this world. Working at home, I watched the terror attacks unfold on live TV. ...
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Christopher B. Strain, Ph.D.
Aug 17, 20179 min read
What To Do When Your Heritage Is Hateful
*A version of this essay was published in The Journal of Hate Studies 13 n 1 (2016). If one pays attention to the old Confederate battle...
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