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  • Why People in the UK (and U.S. Media) Should Go Back and Read John Milton’s ‘Areopagitikos’

    Why People in the UK (and U.S. Media) Should Go Back and Read John Milton’s ‘Areopagitikos’0

    In 1559, early in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, England passed the 51st of the Injunctions Concerning Religion, which provided that no book in any language could be published without a license. Naturally, licenses were provided by powerful persons: the queen, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of London, a handful of select members of

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  • Why People in Hong Kong Have Incomes 5x Higher Than People in China’s Richest Province

    Why People in Hong Kong Have Incomes 5x Higher Than People in China’s Richest Province0

    For two decades, prosperity has followed economic freedom for the most economically free territory in the world: Hong Kong. An island lacking natural resources, Hong Kong was added to the British Empire after the Opium Wars and eventually transformed into a hub of Britain’s China trade. Britain’s 99-year lease on Hong Kong expired in 1997,

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  • Why People Fall for Fake History

    Why People Fall for Fake History1

    Students of the modern education system usually receive some version of the following historical tale of the West, aptly summarized by scholar David Bentley Hart: “Once upon a time… Western humanity was the cosseted and incurious ward of Mother Church; during this, the age of faith, culture stagnated, science languished, wars of religion were routinely

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  • Why People Do Evil

    Why People Do Evil0

    • February 8, 2016

    In his TED talk entitled “The Psychology of Evil,” social psychologist Philip Zimbardo utilizes the following, typically flat-to-solid-perspective image from the work of M.C. Escher: The white images are angels; the black, devils. The dual lesson Zimbardo uses the picture to illustrate, in advance of his argument, is this: Not only are good and evil

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  • Why People Aren’t as Moral as They Think

    Why People Aren’t as Moral as They Think0

    Polls show that about seven in ten Americans believe moral values are getting worse. But if you ask most people, they will probably claim to be one of the moral ones.    It’s natural for individuals to think of people as either moral or immoral, but the reality is more complicated. In his book The

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  • Why People are so Crazy for Pokémon Go

    Why People are so Crazy for Pokémon Go1

    Like a lot of America, I’ve just become aware of the Pokémon Go craze. Apparently, the free app was just released on July 6, and its popularity has already led to servers crashing. For those who are still in the dark about Pokémon Go, here’s the gist of it: It terms itself a “location-based augmented

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