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  • The Degenderettes: How a Violent ‘Art Show’ Is Seeking to Silence Women

    The Degenderettes: How a Violent ‘Art Show’ Is Seeking to Silence Women0

    For those who do not use social media, the word “TERF” (which stands for “Trans Exclusive Radical Feminist”) might be disorienting. Thanks to its relatively recent and ferocious introduction into mainstream media, however, the term is gaining widespread use, including news stories about celebrities sporting a signature hairstyle known as “TERF bangs.” The function of

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  • How Hitler Could Regret He’d ‘Been So Kind’ in a Letter Days Before His Death

    How Hitler Could Regret He’d ‘Been So Kind’ in a Letter Days Before His Death1

    In a bunker in Berlin on April 27, 1945, just three days before he’d take his own life—either by cyanide or the pistol (historians still debate which killed him)—Adolf Hitler reflected on his shattered dream of creating a thousand-year Third Reich. As the Red Army encircled the German capital, the 56-year-old Hitler, weary and defeated,

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  • Thank God Trump Isn’t a Foreign Policy Expert

    Thank God Trump Isn’t a Foreign Policy Expert0

    Over the last century, the world has witnessed the slow but steady depoliticization of America and Western Europe in favor of the rule of the apolitical “expert.” The great challenge of our era is to foster the return of actual political life between the people and their elected officials. President Trump’s summit with Kim Jong-un

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  • Suicide: I’ve Heard its Siren Call

    Suicide: I’ve Heard its Siren Call0

    For ten years now, I have suffered from chronic pain after ripping apart my abdominal wall, causing permanent nerve damage. I generally keep it private, but in the face of the mounting despair and hopelessness in our society, I feel I ought to pull back the veil. One day I was fine, wrenching a toilet

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  • ‘You Aren’t That Big a Deal’: A Message the Self-Esteem Generation Desperately Needs to Hear

    ‘You Aren’t That Big a Deal’: A Message the Self-Esteem Generation Desperately Needs to Hear0

    There is a meme that speaks directly to the hearts and minds of the overly self-conscious. Perhaps you’ve seen it; it goes something like this: ‘Brain: “I see you are trying to sleep. May I offer you a selection of your most embarrassing memories from the past 10 years?”’ At first, it seems odd to

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  • Scientists Have Created a Flux Capacitor

    Scientists Have Created a Flux Capacitor0

    The technology that allowed Marty McFly to travel back in time in the 1985 movie Back to the Future was the mythical flux capacitor, designed by inventor Doc Brown. We’ve now developed our own kind of flux capacitor, as detailed recently in Physical Review Letters. While we can’t send a DeLorean car back in time,

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