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Shane Claiborne: The Myth of Redemptive Violence. I had a veteran friend once tell me, "The biggest lie I have ever been told is that violence is evil, except in war. " He went on, "My government told me that. My Church told me that. My family told me that. ... I came back from war and told them the truth -- 'Violence is not evil, except in war. ...

Violence is evil -- period.'" By thinking about tomorrow. Locked in the Ivory Tower: Why JSTOR Imprisons Academic Research - Atlantic Mobile. Universities have to pay thousands of dollars every year to read their own research online.

Locked in the Ivory Tower: Why JSTOR Imprisons Academic Research - Atlantic Mobile

Blame the broken economics of academic publishing. Thomas Barrat/Shutterstock This morning, I searched for an article about autism on JSTOR, the online database of academic journals.