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  • How Ancient Greek Skepticism Can Thwart Internet Trolls

    How Ancient Greek Skepticism Can Thwart Internet Trolls0

    How do you deal with those pesky trolls who seem to be everywhere on social media sites nowadays? Nothing ruins the cool vibe of the social media experience more than their online diatribes, meant to tease and instigate with every key stroke. Kendall Walters defines a troll as “someone who deliberately provokes others online, typically

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  • How an Archer With No Arms Set a World Record

    How an Archer With No Arms Set a World Record0

    It’s not everyday that you get to witness records for any kind of sport being broken, but last year we got to witness a truly amazing feat, as Paralympic archer Matt Stutzman acquired the Furthest accurate distance in Men’s archery title. At a private golf club in McKinney, Texas, Matt, the ‘armless archer,’ loosed an arrow from

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  • How an Ancient Philosopher Predicted the 2016 Election

    How an Ancient Philosopher Predicted the 2016 Election0

    Many people depend upon polls to predict the outcome of elections. What pollsters do appeals to all the prejudices of the post-Enlightenment modern mind: They employ a distinctive technique (thank you Rene Descartes), they focus on empirical evidence (thank you Francis Bacon), and they invoke the mathematical forms of statistics (thank you John Graunt and

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  • How Americans Select Their Dictators

    How Americans Select Their Dictators0

    When it comes to selecting a candidate for president, how do you choose? The answer seems like a no-brainer to some: simply choose the person whose ideology most closely aligns with your own. But if a recent article from The Wall Street Journal is any indication, that’s not the way many Americans operate. Instead, they

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  • How Americans Are Becoming ‘Idiots’… Literally

    How Americans Are Becoming ‘Idiots’… Literally0

    Get this: “In April 2015, Amazon’s best-selling book in the United States was not the recipient of a Booker Prize, a Nobel Prize, or a Pulitzer Prize. It was not even a work of literature; it was an adult coloring book by Johanna Basford. In August 2015, the American Art Therapy Association publicly endorsed “the

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  • How American Liberalism is Co-Opting Islam

    How American Liberalism is Co-Opting Islam0

    A persistent refrain of conservatives and liberal hawks has been that liberals and leftists are soft on Islam. This theme dominated Nick Cohen’s What’s Left, Andrew Anthony’s The Fall-Out, Paul Berman’s Flight of the Intellectuals, and much of the late life of Christopher Hitchens. There is, of course, a great deal of truth to that contention. It is unimaginable

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