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Jeff Minick

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  • Some Thoughts on Halloween and Ray Bradbury

    Some Thoughts on Halloween and Ray Bradbury0

    In 2015, blogger Amanda Russo posted a humorous piece “Why Halloween Is Actually A Pretty Weird Holiday.” As Russo says, on Halloween we encourage our kids to take candy from strangers. We threaten our neighbors with “Trick or Treat.” We spend a chunk of change buying and giving away sugary treats, often to people we

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  • Beware the Architects of Illusion

    Beware the Architects of Illusion1

    “In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.” So goes the old saying. In Intellectual Takeout contributor Walker Larson’s fantasy novel Hologram, however, Aaron Castillian becomes a king of sorts precisely because he is blind, at least in a particular way. After his people’s enemy, the Voturans, devastate Aaron’s hometown and kill

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  • Defining Decency Up: How to Repair Our Deviant Culture

    Defining Decency Up: How to Repair Our Deviant Culture1

    “A society that loses its sense of outrage is doomed to extinction.” So stated New York State Supreme Court Justice Edwin Torres over 30 years ago in a private communication. From the bench, Judge Torres added this lament: “The slaughter of the innocent marches unabated: subway riders, bodega owners, cab drivers, babies; in laundromats, at

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  • On the ‘Times’ Machine: A Trip Into ‘The New York Times’ Past

    On the ‘Times’ Machine: A Trip Into ‘The New York Times’ Past1

    For my birthday this year, one of my sons gave me an unexpected gift. The brown box, rectangular and less than 2 inches wide, contained another slightly smaller box, black and classy, which in turn contained a complete and original copy of the Thursday, March 1, 1951, New York Times, the newspaper from the day

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