Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov is arguably the greatest Russian novel ever written (which means a case can be made that it is the best novel ever written, period). Kurt Vonnegut once wrote that Brothers is the one book “that can teach you everything you need to know about life.” Dostoyevsky has been praised for his
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Although he was in power for only a handful of years, Hitler and his Nazi government slaughtered millions. One of the more well-known victims of that slaughter was Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who was executed on April 8th, 1945, a few short weeks before Hitler’s own death. Unlike many of Hitler’s victims, Bonhoeffer was not a Jew,
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Several weeks ago, Intellectual Takeout posted a piece about the exhausting nature of superficial conversation. According to this piece: “Human beings are those whose nature is to ask deeper questions, and we primarily do this through our relationships with others. When these relationships are dominated by superficial conversations, we are not acting according to our
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If you’re looking for an illustration as to how much we’ve changed in the last 100 or so years, take a look at this list of instructions for medical examiners from the Manhattan Life Insurance Company of New York. The document, published in 1899, is basically a dull litany of things medical examiners should do
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There’s a story floating around today about a radio station being hacked and an expletive-laced recording played through the station’s broadcast signal. CBS Denver describes it below. Listeners of the Breckenridge-based 106.3 FM The Lift radio station heard strange ramblings from an unknown person along with a lot of foul language on Tuesday morning. …
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Holbrook Jackson: “Truth is one’s own conception of things.” G. K. Chesterton: “The Big Blunder. All thought is an attempt to discover if one’s own conception is true or not.” The above exchange between Holbrook Jackson and G. K. Chesterton summarizes the radical difference between the relativist and the realist in regard to
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