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  • Was Stephen Hawking Really Just a Computer?

    Was Stephen Hawking Really Just a Computer?1

    Stephen Hawking once pronounced that he thought he was little more than a computer and that, because of this, he was unafraid to die. “I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for

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  • Was Shakespeare Really a Nihilist?

    Was Shakespeare Really a Nihilist?1

    Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury Signifying nothing. Does this wonderful passage from Macbeth signify that Shakespeare believed that human life was idiotic and utterly

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  • Was Plato Liberal or Totalitarian?

    Was Plato Liberal or Totalitarian?0

    No one reading Plato’s work Republic is likely to come away seeing it as a manifesto for libertarianism. However, it’s common to hear people claim that it is a blueprint for totalitarian collectivism, as, for example, FEE past president Richard Ebeling wrote in his September 23, 2016 column. Plato isn’t even engaged in utopian political

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  • Was Patrick Henry Illiterate?

    Was Patrick Henry Illiterate?0

    Patrick Henry is a name familiar to many Americans. But let’s be honest, few of us who know of him could offer more than a detail or two about the man. Like Paul Revere, Henry, an admirable patriot and statesman, is primarily remembered for a single act. While Revere is remembered for his famous Midnight

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  • Was John Wayne’s Masculine Image a Lie?

    Was John Wayne’s Masculine Image a Lie?0

    There is perhaps no manlier icon in Hollywood history than John Wayne. More than 40 years after his last film, he remains the cinematic apotheosis of the rugged, principled, red-blooded, tough-as-nails, frontier-conquering, patriotic American male. Not even Steve McQueen or Clint Eastwood can measure up to The Duke. But was Wayne’s masculine image a sham,

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  • Was Jesus a Socialist? A Conversation With Theologian David Bentley Hart and Economist Jerry Bowyer

    Was Jesus a Socialist? A Conversation With Theologian David Bentley Hart and Economist Jerry Bowyer0

    Was Jesus a socialist? Was he revolting against wealth and money itself? Or was he actually challenging people who use the violence of the state to prosper? I have my own working framework for how to apply Jesus’s role model in politics and economics. Nevertheless, I recently spoke with fellow-travelers theologian David Bentley Hart (below)

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