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Anti-ICE Riots and the 'Sin of Empathy'
- Culture, Featured, Politics, Religion, Uncategorized
- June 20, 2025
As the current political and social transformations of the nation sets into place, and awareness of it is more and more realized, there is inevitably a psychological sense in many Americans that the changes are permanent. Many who feel this are those who have opposed them, and who have believed they had a stake in
READ MOREThe other day I stumbled across an exam compiled by the famous inventor Thomas Edison. The exam consisted of 146 questions and was used by Edison to screen applicants for executive positions in his laboratory. I began looking through the questions, and to my dismay, realized that I would have fared quite badly had I
READ MOREShin Takagi is a pedophile. He has never acted on his impulses, he told the Atlantic in a recent interview, but is attracted to children. This is a problem for Takagi. After reading the article, one senses that he feels an intense desire for minors but also believes children should be protected from people like
READ MORE“Religion is a bunch of bullshit,” Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong said in a 2010 interview with vocal atheist Bill Maher. If you’re not familiar with Green Day, they’re the band that taught you to stick it to the man if you came of age in the late 90s and early 2000s. In sixth
READ MOREYou don’t have to search far to read claims that capitalism is centered on greed and selfishness. For some, the assertion seems self-evident as they read, for example, stories of pharmaceutical companies dramatically increasing the price of important drugs. Those who hold a “capitalists are greedy” usually belief fail to distinguish between crony capitalists—who make
READ MOREThis past year, I burdened the English-speaking world with my very own translation of the New Testament – a project that I undertook at the behest of my editor at Yale University Press, but that I agreed to almost in the instant that it was proposed. I had long contemplated attempting a ‘subversively literal’ rendering
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