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  • The Ignored Factor in New Zealand’s Mass Shooting

    The Ignored Factor in New Zealand’s Mass Shooting0

    What turned Brenton Tarrant, the 28-year-old Australian who murdered 50 people at a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, last week into a mass killer? We’ll never know for sure. The media has been full of speculation. The suspects include extreme right-wing ideologies, racism, toxic masculinity, resentment of immigrants, first person shooter video games, the internet,

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  • The Ideology of Statue Smashing

    The Ideology of Statue Smashing0

    • August 29, 2018

    Statue smashing is back in the news. One night last week, University of North Carolina students pulled down “Silent Sam,” a bronze monument to students and faculty of the university who fought as Confederate soldiers in the Civil War. The bronze figure is portrayed as static, quiet and without ammunition for his gun—and facing northward—apparently

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  • The Ideology Behind “So What You’re Saying Is…”

    The Ideology Behind “So What You’re Saying Is…”0

    • February 2, 2018

    My social media feed these past few days has contained several references to the recent interview between Canadian psychologist Dr. Jordan Peterson and BBC journalist Cathy Newman. Throughout the interview, as Dr. Peterson gave his views on topics like feminism and LGBT rights, Ms. Newman routinely interrupted him with the meme-worthy phrase, “So what you’re

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  • The Ideologies of Capitalism and Socialism

    The Ideologies of Capitalism and Socialism0

    “Capitalism” and “socialism” both are 19th century ideological tags; they delude and ensnare, as do all ideologies. Zealots for “democratic capitalism” seem to have forgotten that it was Karl Marx who made the word “capitalism” a theoretical concept. Surviving enthusiasts for an abstraction called “socialism” impose killing burdens upon themselves by endeavoring to maintain a

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  • The Idea of Creating a New Universe in the Lab is No Joke

    The Idea of Creating a New Universe in the Lab is No Joke0

    Physicists aren’t often reprimanded for using risqué humour in their academic writings, but in 1991 that is exactly what happened to the cosmologist Andrei Linde at Stanford University. He had submitted a draft article entitled ‘Hard Art of the Universe Creation’ to the journal Nuclear Physics B. In it, he outlined the possibility of creating

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  • The Hurricane Helene Response and the Forgotten Americans

    The Hurricane Helene Response and the Forgotten Americans2

    On Thursday September 26, Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida’s Big Bend region. It soon carved a path of destruction through Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, and Tennessee, and it has claimed over 250 American lives, making it the deadliest hurricane to hit the mainland United States since Katrina in 2005. While the news cycle has

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