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  • Plague Humor Is Good for You

    Plague Humor Is Good for You0

    My older sister took great pleasure in telling a younger-me the dark history behind the nursery rhyme, “Ring-around-the-Rosies.” She told me that the cheerful tune was written about the Black Death: the “pocket full of posies,” refers to small bouquets of sweet-smelling herbs the healthy would carry close to their noses in order to protect

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  • Pizza Shop Guy, Donut Shop Guy, and Little Old Me

    Pizza Shop Guy, Donut Shop Guy, and Little Old Me0

    Eating takeout food frequently is not a good thing to do, experts agree. Fine, I won’t quibble too much with this. But that doesn’t prevent takeout from being an excellent source of research on the culture of work and the staying power of bourgeois values in America. I offer to you, then, Pizza Shop Guy

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  • Pius V vs. Francis: A Tale of Two Popes

    Pius V vs. Francis: A Tale of Two Popes1

    Over Easter weekend, Pope Francis delivered a lovely if banal message to the world in the wake of the brutal attacks in Brussels. He called upon the world to use “weapons of love” to combat the “blind and brutal violence” employed by ISIS. It is difficult to admonish the Pope too harshly for using the

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  • Pioneer Feminist: Feminism Didn’t Turn Out as Well as We Thought

    Pioneer Feminist: Feminism Didn’t Turn Out as Well as We Thought0

    A few weeks ago, we brought attention to the recent comments of Fay Weldon, a pioneer in the modern feminist movement. In Weldon’s eyes, today’s women have taken their claim to victimhood a little too far. Weldon has reappeared in the news with more startling statements on her outlook on feminism in retrospect. In an

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  • Piers Morgan and Transgender Guest: 100 Genders Is Too Many

    Piers Morgan and Transgender Guest: 100 Genders Is Too Many1

    Should Piers Morgan be fired for his view on gender? The BBC recently endorsed an apparatus to support more than two gender identities. Piers Morgan highlighted this decision in an interview with gay journalist Benjamin Butterworth during which the former expressed frustration with the conversation, saying: “I feel insulted and offended that you’re calling me

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  • Physicist: You Don’t Need God to Get ‘Something’ from ‘Nothing’

    Physicist: You Don’t Need God to Get ‘Something’ from ‘Nothing’1

    Believe it or not, there’s been a controversy lately between physicists and philosophers about how to define ‘nothing’. The issue is more important than many think. As you may know, it’s one of the central tenets of the Judeo-Christian tradition that God created the world “ex nihilo”—“out of nothing”—and that, metaphysically speaking, only a divine

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