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  • How Middle Easterners Treated European Refugees during WWII

    How Middle Easterners Treated European Refugees during WWII0

    At the peak of World War II, when Adolf Hitler’s war machine still seemed destined to create his dream of a Third Reich, hundreds of thousands of Europeans found themselves without safe haven. It was April 1941. Hitler and Stalin had already divvied up Poland, and the Germans had swallowed most of Western Europe. On

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  • How Media Use Photography as Propaganda

    How Media Use Photography as Propaganda0

    Recently, New York magazine published a profile piece on Donald Trump’s White House counselor and campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway. The profile itself is well-written, and overall I found it to be fair and interesting. That said, when I saw the accompanying photos, I couldn’t help but be taken aback. I’ve been a photographer for over

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  • How May Day Went From a Religious Holiday to a Socialist One

    How May Day Went From a Religious Holiday to a Socialist One0

    It’s the Merry Month of May: Spring is bursting, the birds are singing…and political riots are detonating.  Without a doubt, May is a month with motley associations—natural, religious, and political.  In many ancient cultures May 1 was regarded as the full arrival of Spring, as expressed in the traditions of dancing around the maypole and

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  • How Marcus Aurelius Influenced Adam Smith (No, Really)

    How Marcus Aurelius Influenced Adam Smith (No, Really)0

    Who Was Marcus Aurelius? Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus was the last of the five good emperors of Rome. He was born in 121 AD, reluctantly became emperor in 161 AD, and reigned for 19 years until his death in 180 AD. His reign was punctuated by numerous wars during which he repelled Rome’s enemies in

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  • How Many People Must Die to Fix the Planet?

    How Many People Must Die to Fix the Planet?0

    On the 40th anniversary of the first world climate conference in 1979, the journal Bioscience published the ominously titled “World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency.” “Scientists,” the Warning begins, “have a moral obligation to clearly warn humanity of any catastrophic threat and to ‘tell it like it is.’ On the basis of this obligation…we declare, with

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  • How Many Libertarians Are There?

    How Many Libertarians Are There?0

    There has been debate this week about how many libertarians there are. The answer is: it depends on how you measure it and how you define libertarian. The overwhelming body of literature, however, using a variety of different methods and different definitions, suggests that libertarians comprise about 10-20% of the population, but may range from

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