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  • Democracy’s Animal Farm: An Allegory in George Orwell’s Fairy Tale

    Democracy’s Animal Farm: An Allegory in George Orwell’s Fairy Tale0

    Every system, particularly political and social systems, are based off of rules. The rules may be written or unwritten, but nonetheless, the rules exist and conforming to them — at least appearing to conform to them — is often an important aspect of life. Since we are often told of late that our democracy is

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  • Democracy, Greed, and the Perils of Equality

    Democracy, Greed, and the Perils of Equality12

    If there are two things that one is likely to hear from college faculty today, they are that 1. Students are too careerist, and 2. We need a more democratic society. They worry about the growing utilitarian cast of education in general, as well as the remnants of hierarchy, authority, paternalism, and inequality in today’s

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  • Democracy Needs Aristocracy

    Democracy Needs Aristocracy0

    Seneca, the Roman philosopher, relates the story of the murder of Callisthenes by Alexander the Great, the “everlasting crime” of the Macedonian leader. Seneca wrote: “For when someone says, ‘Alexander killed many thousands of Persians’ the countering reply to him will be: ‘And Callisthenes too’. Whenever it is said: ‘Alexander killed Darius, who had the

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  • Delusion, Doublespeak, and Duplicity: Why Language Matters

    Delusion, Doublespeak, and Duplicity: Why Language Matters0

    Language matters. Let’s start with some quotes from one of the masters of the English language: George Orwell. From his Politics and the English Language: “Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” And again: “But if thought corrupts language, language

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  • Delta Paid for Its Own Security Upgrade and Solved All its Problems

    Delta Paid for Its Own Security Upgrade and Solved All its Problems0

    The security lines at the Atlanta airport had grown progressively worse. The lines grew longer, the crowds ever more unruly, the invasiveness of the process ever more intense, the mood of the TSA more crabby and scary. Customers were miserable. It had been getting more terrible all the time, unsustainably so. Those of us who

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  • Delayed Motherhood and the Body Beautiful

    Delayed Motherhood and the Body Beautiful2

    There are some who say children rob you of your youth. Perhaps this belief is even influencing the trend of Western women putting off having kids till later in life. Though the delaying of motherhood is explained by demographers in various other ways, it could also betray a kind of pathology in women, persuading them

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