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  • A Haunting Line About How Civilizations Fall

    A Haunting Line About How Civilizations Fall0

    • July 29, 2015

      Below is the oft-quoted line from Will Durant, which appears in the Epilogue to volume 3 of his Story of Civilization. You may remember it from the beginning of Mel Gibson’s film Apocalypto.   Here’s the context of the passage: Save this article to favorites

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  • A Gun Control Lesson From Australia’s Cat Genocide

    A Gun Control Lesson From Australia’s Cat Genocide0

    As America reels from another string of mass shootings, first in El Paso, then in Dayton, Ohio, the debate over gun control is heating up again. Any rational observer realizes that there is something deeply flawed with how we traditionally talk about guns in America. I wonder if we would be better off if we

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  • A gun ban isn’t happening.

    A gun ban isn’t happening.0

    For those in favor of keeping the 2nd Amendment, a new poll from ABC News/Washington Post has determined that you are in the majority and the trend line is on your side.  What’s incredible is the change in public opinion since 1994. Love them or hate them, one has to admit that the pro-gun crowd

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  • A Guide to Dystopian Literature

    A Guide to Dystopian Literature0

    Preface For almost as long as I have had the privilege of reading, I have read dystopian literature. I started with Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles, but I soon rather quickly devoured Brave New World, Animal Farm, and Nineteen Eighty-Four as well as many of the works of Robert Heinlein, Ursula Le Guin, Arthur

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  • A Government Guide to Keeping Insulin Unaffordable: 3 Easy Steps to Hogtie a Market

    A Government Guide to Keeping Insulin Unaffordable: 3 Easy Steps to Hogtie a Market0

    If you’ve heard anything about insulin lately, it’s probably been palpable outrage over soaring prescription prices or dubious optimism about Eli Lilly’s recent release of its new version that, at half the price, will cost an arm or a leg but not both. Amid this cesspool of indignant commentary, you’re likely to hear one of

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  • A Goodbye Kiss for Family Programming

    A Goodbye Kiss for Family Programming0

    Recently, Joseph Cotto and I discussed on our regular podcast the fate of the Hallmark Channel, which I have viewed periodically while moving with my remote button toward Turner Classic Movies. (On Turner I find old movies, popular during my youth, that have not yet been canceled.) What drew me, however briefly, to the Hallmark

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