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  • GQ Magazine Includes the Bible on its List of Books Not Worth Reading

    GQ Magazine Includes the Bible on its List of Books Not Worth Reading0

    A new article in GQ lists the“21 most overrated books ever.” Of the 21 books GQ lists that aren’t worth reading, one of them is the Bible. It’s enough to make you wonder if GQ is a magazine worth reading.   The Bible gets the boot, along with Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea and

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  • Goya’s Painting of Saturn Devouring His Son: A Study in Damnation

    Goya’s Painting of Saturn Devouring His Son: A Study in Damnation0

    It’s one of the most horrific images in the history of Western art.   As the myth goes, Saturn (or Cronus, as the Greeks called him) was king of the universe, but was warned by a prophecy that one day he would be overthrown by one of his sons, just as he overthrew his father Uranus. To preserve

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  • Governments Switched From ‘Flatten the Curve’ to ‘Lockdown Until Vaccine’

    Governments Switched From ‘Flatten the Curve’ to ‘Lockdown Until Vaccine’0

    In the early days of the COVID-19 panic – back in mid-March – articles began to appear pushing the idea of “flattening the curve” (The Washington Post ran an article called “Flatten the Curve” on March 14). This idea was premised on spreading out the total number of COVID-19 infections over time, so as to

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  • Governments Had a Major Role in Sustaining Slavery

    Governments Had a Major Role in Sustaining Slavery0

    Given America’s history with slavery and eventual emancipation, especially the Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment, the average person might be left with the impression that slavery was only ended thanks to the efforts of a powerful nation-state. In fact, one might even go as far as to assume that slavery could only be brought

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  • Governments Are Faking It, and Copying Each Other

    Governments Are Faking It, and Copying Each Other0

    A mystery for months is how it is that so many governments in so many different places on earth could have adopted the same or very similar preposterous policies, no matter the threat level of the virus, and without firm evidence that interventions had any hope of being effective. In the course of two weeks,

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  • Government Won’t Save Us From “Woke” Corporations

    Government Won’t Save Us From “Woke” Corporations0

    From the shoes you wear to the ice cream you eat, politics has found a way to sneak into some of the most mundane aspects of our lives. The new trend of “Woke Capital,” where firms are actively promoting social justice causes, has had many free-marketers scratching their heads at how corporate America has hopped

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