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  • 3 Books That Explain the Decline of Western Civilization

    3 Books That Explain the Decline of Western Civilization1

    There used to be a lot books about the “decline of the West.” But now that we are well on our way to everything these writers warned us about, we don’t hear that expression much anymore. But we need these kind of books now more than ever. Here are three that help explain what is

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  • What the Holes in the Fossil Record Can Tell Us

    What the Holes in the Fossil Record Can Tell Us0

    The coelacanths are an ancient group of lobe-finned fishes, with weird appendages that take the form of bony, fleshy, muscular stalks. They’re well-represented in the fossil record all the way back to the Devonian period, some 390 million years ago. However, about 66 million years ago – the time of the dinosaurs’ demise – coelacanths

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  • Politics Will Make You Dumber

    Politics Will Make You Dumber0

    Hunter S. Thompson is one of my favorite authors and one of the smartest humorists of the last hundred years. He also shot himself in the head once he reached his mid-sixties. I don’t think he viewed himself as a humorist per se. Maybe I don’t fully understand the implications of that descriptor. I think of

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  • Odysseus’ Voyage: What We Can Learn From Homer’s Everyman

    Odysseus’ Voyage: What We Can Learn From Homer’s Everyman0

    Lovers of Monty Python will recall the scene in The Life of Brian in which John Cleese, Eric Idle and Michael Palin discuss the contribution of the Romans to civilization: “What have the Romans ever done for us?” In today’s supercilious culture we tend to believe that we owe nothing to the past in general

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  • Most People Today Want to be Propagandized

    Most People Today Want to be Propagandized0

    There’s a principle in hypnotism that goes like this: A person cannot be hypnotized against his will. He must be a willing subject. He must be fully cooperative. So it goes with propaganda. For propaganda to be effective, it requires submissive subjects. As Professor Nicholas O’Shaughnessy wrote, propaganda is a “co-production in which we are

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  • Is Respect Vanishing from Society?

    Is Respect Vanishing from Society?0

    Last summer, when Pokémon Go was the latest rage, the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C. made a special request for visitors to stop playing the game within the museum. Doing so, the museum explained, brought a new level of disrespect to those who had lost their lives to the prejudices of Hitler and his followers.

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