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  • The Most Intolerant County in America (and the Most Tolerant City)

    The Most Intolerant County in America (and the Most Tolerant City)0

    The Atlantic recently asked PredictWise, an analytics firm, to rank US counties based on partisan prejudice (“affective polarization”). The results are now in, and they are fascinating. [Editor’s note: Image shown below] The most intolerant country was not Rabun County in northeastern Georgia, where the film Deliverance was shot. Nor was it in Albany County,

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  • The Most Influential Scientist You Never Heard Of (Probably)

    The Most Influential Scientist You Never Heard Of (Probably)0

    Gaze at Alexander Von Humboldt’s 1814 self-portrait and you peer into the eyes of a man who sought to see and understand everything. By this point in his life, at age 45, Humboldt had tutored himself in every branch of science, spent more than five years on a 6,000 mile scientific trek through South America,

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  • The Most Famous Proof for God’s Existence

    The Most Famous Proof for God’s Existence0

    The Catholic Church is today celebrating the feast of St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), who is considered one of the greatest minds the world has ever known. Among Aquinas’ numerous achievements, he is known for being the author of the most famous proofs for God’s existence, known as the “Five Ways” (Quinque Viae). One finds them

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  • The Most Dangerous Answer at Last Night’s Debate

    The Most Dangerous Answer at Last Night’s Debate0

    First of all, Democrats, thank you. I know we’ve had our differences over the years, but last night you did your nation and indeed all of humanity a service when you ritually humiliated Michael Bloomberg. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a debate floor get mopped quite like that. By the end, Bloomberg was like

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  • The Most Beautiful Passage on Sorrow in Literature

    The Most Beautiful Passage on Sorrow in Literature0

    Several years ago, I was reading one of those lists ranking the 100 greatest novels ever written. It was TIME magazine’s list, if I recall correctly. Many of the books I had read, some of them I had not, but nearly all of them I had at least heard of. One of the books I

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  • The Morality of Modern Education is Relativism

    The Morality of Modern Education is Relativism0

    It would be a mistake or, at any rate, an exaggeration to say that modern education has turned its back on morality. It has not. It’s just that the morality it pursues is that of radical relativism with its radical skepticism about the benefits of the “great conversation” that has animated educated discourse for almost

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