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  • Myth: Medievals Thought the World was Flat

    Myth: Medievals Thought the World was Flat0

    Science got started much earlier than you think. Consider the example of the sphericity of the earth: “There never was a period of ‘flat earth darkness’ among scholars (regardless of how many uneducated people may have conceptualized our planet both then and now). Greek knowledge of sphericity never faded, and all major medieval scholars accepted

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  • Myth and Materialism

    Myth and Materialism3

    I’ll never forget reading my first chemistry textbook. The thesis of the introduction was that everything can be explained by chemistry. Everything. From the weather to plants to human thought and human behavior. I remember feeling particular disgust when the textbook claimed that what we call love is actually just the interaction and activation of

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  • My University Treated Me Like a Criminal Over a Joke

    My University Treated Me Like a Criminal Over a Joke0

    For the past six years, I have taught an undergraduate course on international economics at Johns Hopkins University. Most of my students thought it was a very good course. So I was shocked when, on December 6, 2016, I was met at the door of my classroom by Johns Hopkins security personnel and barred from entering.

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  • My Time in the University Gulag

    My Time in the University Gulag0

    Each of us is a center of the universe, and that universe is shattered when they hiss at you: “You are under arrest!” “Me? What for?” These were the words that every Gulag prisoner parceled out before detention. Who knew what their crime really was? Mine was being a Christian, cisgender male of European descent

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  • My Random, Bold Predictions for 2018

    My Random, Bold Predictions for 20180

    Let it be known that I am not a prophet, and I will quite happily eat crow, eat my hat, eat my words… eat whatever is necessary when my prognostications prove preposterous and my prophecies prove to be not prophetic, but pathetic. Nevertheless, with my finger to the wind and my squinty eye on the

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  • My New Year’s Resolution: Have More Enemies

    My New Year’s Resolution: Have More Enemies1

    How are your New Year’s resolutions going? I rarely make them, but this year I have. Please do not mistake the title. I did not write “make more enemies,” though to be honest that might not be a bad one for some people. That would be a different essay, however. This is not an essay

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