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  • ‘I Want You to Panic,’ Said Greta, and Panic They Did

    ‘I Want You to Panic,’ Said Greta, and Panic They Did0

    “There is no more any prophet,” is the bitter lament of the Psalmist in the Babylonian Exile. We are more fortunate. Sixteen-year-old Swedish schoolgirl Greta Thunberg has been out-Jeremiah-ing Jeremiah as she criss-crosses Europe lecturing about the imminent catastrophe of climate change. Here’s how she excoriated “the people and prophets and priests” at the World Economic Forum in

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  • ‘I Believe Because It Is Absurd’: Understanding Christianity’s First Meme

    ‘I Believe Because It Is Absurd’: Understanding Christianity’s First Meme0

    Religious belief is often thought to evince a precarious kind of commitment, in which the degree of conviction is inversely proportional to correspondence with the facts. Exhibit A for this common characterisation of religious belief is the maxim of the third-century Christian writer Tertullian, who is credited with the saying ‘I believe because it is

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  • ‘I Am Mother’: Brainless Diversion… but With a Darker Point

    ‘I Am Mother’: Brainless Diversion… but With a Darker Point0

    Warning: contains spoilers Post-apocalyptic shows and movies never seem to go out of style. Netflix is trying to corner part of this lucrative market with its own original content. Their latest addition to the canon is a movie called “I am Mother.” As is customary in such movies, we start by learning that a post-apocalyptic

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  • ‘How to Handle a Woman’

    ‘How to Handle a Woman’4

    Now, there’s a title that will wake the woke, particularly females, and send them roaring my way with brickbats and scalping knives. That word “handle” in particular splashes kerosene on the fires of rage, implying as it does some sort of manipulator. Yet “How to Handle a Woman” is the name of a song in

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  • ‘Hollywood Also Signed Up’: 80 Years of World War II in Cinema

    ‘Hollywood Also Signed Up’: 80 Years of World War II in Cinema0

    No event in human history has fascinated filmmakers so much as the Second World War. One estimate suggests that as of 2014, there have been over 1,300 movies made about World War II, and that number has only grown since then, with two more entries arriving in theaters this year: Sisu, the brutal story of

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  • ‘Hey, Hey, Ho, Ho, Western Civ Has Got to Go’

    ‘Hey, Hey, Ho, Ho, Western Civ Has Got to Go’5

    On January 15, 1987, Jesse Jackson and around 500 protesters marched down Palm Drive, Stanford University’s grand main entrance, chanting “Hey hey, ho ho, Western Civ has got to go.” They were protesting Stanford University’s introductory humanities program known as “Western Culture.” For Jackson and the protesters, the problem was its lack of “diversity.” The

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