The clearest and most disturbing expression of the present state of the world I’ve read comes from Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, the outgoing United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.” This…
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thoughts on life
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Recently I witnessed a blue jay commit an act of premeditated murder of a starling. The incident raises the age-old question: Is the fault in our stars, or in ourselves,…
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The great, dying sycamore is now shedding limbs like a leper, but buds still sprout from its remaining branches this spring. The sky is an incredible blue, a blue that…
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Are you a Hobbesian or a Rousseauian? Most people’s core worldview falls into one philosophical camp or the other, which usually determines where we fall on the political spectrum.
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Every week now it seems, astronomers are making a mind-blowing discovery or observation. Supermassive black holes at the center of galaxies; strange stars and galaxies flickering on just after the…
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A huge mass of gray and white clouds, looking like hundreds of cottonballs packed together and filling the southern sky, move almost imperceptibly from west to east. Small slices of…
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Pause and reflect on the following passage. It’s a disturbingly clear statement of a Hobbesian view of human nature, and it comes from a leading progressive commentator. It feeds into…
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After the FBI deflected from their own negligence in the Parkview Florida school slaughter by indicting 13 Russians on Friday for interfering in the presidential election, and after President Trump…