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  • Racism and homophobia

    Racism and homophobia0

    Recently a long-time reader and commenter raised an issue that should be of interest and concern to people on both sides of the LGBT divide: “Zac and so many others want their point of view to be seen as a legitimate point of view. Even if we disagree with it we are at least supposed

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  • Why are people starting to believe in UFOs again?

    Why are people starting to believe in UFOs again?0

    The 1990s were a high-water mark for public interest in UFOs and alien abduction. Shows like “The X-Files” and Fox’s “alien autopsy” hoax were prime-time events, while MIT even hosted an academic conference on the abduction phenomenon. But in the first decade of the 21st century, interest in UFOs began to wane. Fewer sightings were

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  • Can You Name The Classic Novel By Its Last Line?

    Can You Name The Classic Novel By Its Last Line?0

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  • Why Not Having Habits Makes You Miserable

    Why Not Having Habits Makes You Miserable0

    As distant children of the Enlightenment and Age of Reason, we still highly value the ideals of self-determination, freedom from structure, and independence from the past. These things are good—but only to a certain extent. The process of maturity eventually reveals that one is never entirely independent of the past, that the absence of any

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  • What Does Healthy Democracy Look Like?

    What Does Healthy Democracy Look Like?0

    Surely nobody in this day and age has the temerity to suggest that there’s anything wrong with democracy? Surely I am not doing so? Well, it depends what exactly we mean by democracy. As always, it’s important that we define our terms. Democracy means the rule of the people (Demos = People). The rule of

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  • Absolute Comfort Corrupts Absolutely

    Absolute Comfort Corrupts Absolutely0

    My men went on and presently met the Lotus-Eaters, nor did these Lotus-Eaters have any thought of destroying our companions, but they only gave them lotus to taste of. But any of them who ate the honey-sweet fruit of lotus was unwilling to take any message back, or to go away, but they wanted to

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