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  • Who Was Right: Orwell or Huxley?

    Who Was Right: Orwell or Huxley?0

    • July 27, 2015

    From the Foreword of Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, in which he compares the dystopian visions of George Orwell’s 1984 and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World: “What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to

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  • Who Was Mary Magdalene? (And Was She Really a ‘Penitent Prostitute’?)

    Who Was Mary Magdalene? (And Was She Really a ‘Penitent Prostitute’?)0

    • March 9, 2018

    Who was Mary Magdalene? What do we know about her? And how do we know it? These questions resurface with the release of a new movie, Mary Magdalene, starring Rooney Mara in the titular role. The question of how we know about her is a relatively simple one. She appears in a number of early

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  • Who Was Joan of Arc?

    Who Was Joan of Arc?0

    I always thought Joan of Arc was something of a medieval legend, embellished over the centuries in a hundred paintings, novels, and films. I couldn’t have been more wrong. Rummaging through the treasure of cheap French texts in the Kindle store, I unearthed Le Procés de Jeanne d’Arc. Her 1431 witchcraft trial in Rouen was recorded word-for-word,

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  • Who Was Jean-Jacques Rousseau?

    Who Was Jean-Jacques Rousseau?2

    “Masochist, exhibitionist, neurasthenic, hypochondriac, incapable of normal or parental affection, incipient paranoiac, narcissistic introvert … pathologically timid, a kleptomaniac, infantilist, irritable, and miserly.” This is how one scholar has diagnosed Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Harsh though this may sound, the details of Rousseau’s life (1712–1778) bear out this description. Rousseau’s ideas are at the foundation of the

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  • Who Wants to ‘See Them Aliens’?

    Who Wants to ‘See Them Aliens’?0

    Over 1.3 million people have RSVP’d as “Going” on Facebook to an event titled “Storm Area 51, They Can’t Stop All of Us.” An additional one million people are “interested.” The event details note that anyone who plans to participate and “see them aliens” should meet at the Area 51 Alien Center tourist attraction, a

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  • Who Speaks for the Unborn in Massachusetts?

    Who Speaks for the Unborn in Massachusetts?0

    In its most recent exercise of liberal democracy, the state senate of Massachusetts voted 32-8 to override Gov. Charlie Baker’s veto of what is called the Roe Act. One day earlier, Monday, the state house had voted to override. The Roe Act is now law in the Bay State. And what does it say?     

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