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Our Universe: Chaos, or Cosmos?0
- Culture, Featured, Philosophy
- July 23, 2024
Is the universe a meaningless collection of lifeless matter? We live on a small planet in an out-of-the-way corner of an insignificant galaxy, and though our lives might feel real and important, is that just a delusion? After all, the only thing that’s really going on is that atoms are randomly careening off of one
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What Are Presidential Elections About?1
If a presidential candidate wins the election by a margin of 60–40, it is called a “landslide.” The winning party has a strong mandate to pass its policy program—and the losers face an uphill battle to stand up to the majority. Yet consider that 40 percent of the electorate equates to about 93.4 million people.
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Friday Comic: Eternal Philosophy0
- Entertainment
- July 19, 2024
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Novak Djokovic, Aaron Rodgers, Kyrie Irving, and the Fight for Medical Freedom0
With the most Grand Slams, Masters titles, weeks at number one, and year-end number-one rankings, Novak Djokovic is arguably the greatest tennis player who has ever lived. He has also been a staunch advocate of medical freedom—a stance that came to the fore during the COVID years and has made headlines again this week. During
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Why Raw Milk Dealers Are Now a Thing0
On her podcast The Skinny Confidential, Lauryn Evarts Bosstick made a confession while speaking with actress Gwyneth Paltrow a few months ago. “I have a dealer,” she said. On her podcast The Skinny Confidential, Lauryn Evarts Bosstick made a confession while speaking with actress Gwyneth Paltrow a few months ago. “I have a dealer,” she
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The Battle for the Soul of America0
After spending the last year living in the United States, I will mercifully be whisked back to my peaceful homeland of Australia before the tumult of November’s election season begins. While I am not a US citizen, I certainly have a dog in the fight — as a green card holder, a taxpayer, the husband
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What It Was Like Meeting My Country Neighbors—and Why You Should Meet Yours6
Recently, I was in search of trout, but my search resulted in more than just fish. I’ve been a fly fisherman for over a decade, but when I moved to Wisconsin a few years back, I lost easy access to my favorite haunts. So I was searching for a new stretch of untouched waters to
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On the Power of Quiet Lives4
Under her pen name George Elliot, Mary Anne Evans wrote these words in her 1871–72 novel Middlemarch: The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a
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The Emperor’s Old Age: Biden and the Deep State Con0
In Hans Christian Andersen’s classic folktale “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” a vain monarch pays two con artists to make an expensive suit of clothes that cannot be seen by fools. When the emperor and his ministers can’t see the clothes, they don’t say anything—after all, they don’t want to be taken for fools. When the
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