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  • A New Year’s Chat With the Devil

    A New Year’s Chat With the Devil0

    Ah, New Year’s Eve! It’s a great moment for reflecting on the past, taking stock of the present, and planning for the future. Indulging in the Auld Lang Syne cliché is not unique to humans. The spirit world does the same, or at least it does according to a piece in a 1948 edition of

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  • A New Year’s Wish for Home and Hearth

    A New Year’s Wish for Home and Hearth0

    Recently I moved from a four-bedroom house on 2.5 acres in a rural neighborhood into a two-bedroom apartment in an older home in the middle of town. The apartment offers a dramatic change from the house. Here, for instance, a constant stream of traffic flows within 15 feet of my living room windows. I’m within

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  • A New Year’s Feud In the Land of MAGA

    A New Year’s Feud In the Land of MAGA0

    Dear Uncle Dan,   I hope you are well and still making friends. I’m sorry to hear the parole board turned you down, but there’s always next time. While shopping for Christmas, I ran into your ex, and Vera’s crude remarks tell me communication with her is a no-go. (She’s still bitter about your entanglement

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  • A New Way to Remedy American Students’ Ignorance of History?

    A New Way to Remedy American Students’ Ignorance of History?0

    As Intellectual Takeout has reported in the past, American students can be a bit clueless when it comes to historical events, even relatively recent ones like the Holocaust from World War II. But some teachers are seeking to change that through a new project known as History Unfolded. According to The Washington Post: “The project,

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  • A New Migration Begins?

    A New Migration Begins?0

    As Americans, we are accustomed to a variety of contemporary migration patterns. Business owners in blue states often sell their businesses and then retire to Florida’s more friendly tax environment. For those blue state business owners who are tired of high taxes, but still have a desire to keep growing and flourishing, they often move

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  • A New Logical Fallacy Is Popping Up

    A New Logical Fallacy Is Popping Up3

    • September 21, 2016

    By now, most of you are familiar with the ad hominem logical fallacy. Latin for “against the man,” it’s the practice of personally attacking one’s opponent rather than his or her argument. In this blog I’d like to introduce a brand new logical fallacy that I frequently see committed today. I have dubbed it the

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