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Daniel Lattier

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  • The Myth of Life Expectancy

    The Myth of Life Expectancy0

    “Well, yeah, but most people only lived to the age of 40 back then, so…” This is a common retort I see in response to comparisons between our modern age and the past. It’s intended as a mic drop that supposedly illustrates our superiority to our less scientifically-minded ancestors, who were apparently too wrapped up in superstitious

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  • Why Only Christianity Can Save the West… Again

    Why Only Christianity Can Save the West… Again2

    Hellenistic thought experienced its “golden age” during the the 5th and 4th centuries B.C. This period witnessed the lives of some of history’s greatest philosophers, teachers, authors, and playwrights, and culminated with the spreading of Hellenism by Alexander the Great. But by the end of the 1st century B.C., Hellenistic thought had been exhausted. Its

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  • Why the Bible Doesn’t Stand a Chance Today

    Why the Bible Doesn’t Stand a Chance Today5

    The 2002 film Reign of Fire portrays a post-apocalyptic world in which dragons have reawakened and established their dominance over the world. Near the beginning of the film, Christian Bale and Gerard Butler’s characters do a dramatic portrayal of a scene from The Empire Strikes Back for a group of children who would have never

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  • Author: We’re Now Living in an ‘Age of Anger’

    Author: We’re Now Living in an ‘Age of Anger’0

    According to the title of Pankaj Mishra’s latest book, we are now living in an “Age of Anger.” He writes: “[T]he current conflagration [in the world] has brought to the surface what Friedrich Nietzsche called ‘ressentiment’—‘a whole tremulous realm of subterranean revenge, inexhaustible and insatiable in outbursts… what Hannah Arendt described as a ‘tremendous increase

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