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  • Brutal Reviews of Shakespeare from the 1600s

    Brutal Reviews of Shakespeare from the 1600s0

    In 1660, Samuel Pepys, a 26-year-old civil servant in London, started writing a diary. He kept it up for about a decade before quitting, and the surviving record offers historians a rich glimpse into daily life in 17th century England. Take this entry from March 1, 1661. Pepys, an avid fan of theater, recorded his

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  • Is Free Will an Illusion?

    Is Free Will an Illusion?0

    A little more than a year ago, I had the chance to talk with an extremely intelligent and talented scholar, one who had justly won a number of major awards. As we began to talk rather civilly over coffee and tea about our understandings of modern academia, this person said with some exasperation after I told

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  • History Quiz: Kings of Medieval England

    History Quiz: Kings of Medieval England0

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  • Welcome to the Chaos Stage of our Decline

    Welcome to the Chaos Stage of our Decline0

    Oddly enough, and despite the wretched news of another mass shooting right on the heels of several others, the latest reports from the Bureau of Justice Statistics indicate that gun violence is actually down. Statistically, we’re safer now than we were in the 1990s. Here are a couple highlights: Firearm-related homicides declined 39%, from 18,253

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  • A Warning about Islam from the Last Pope?

    A Warning about Islam from the Last Pope?0

    • July 26, 2016

    A large part of the controversy between Islam and the West boils down to scriptural hermeneutics.   “Scriptural hermeneutics” refers to the lens that a person, group, or religion uses to interpret their respective scriptures. Most Christians, for instance, hold to some sort of theory of “divine inspiration” in regard to how the Bible was

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  • Teacher: Students Crave Ethics Instruction

    Teacher: Students Crave Ethics Instruction0

    High school English teacher Paul Barnwell made two interesting observations yesterday in The Atlantic. The first was that his students have no moral compass. Barnwell discovered this when discussing various ethical issues with his class. His students were, he found, quite oblivious to internationally and historically accepted values of moral living. But perhaps such a

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