The Barrage of Trump’s Awful Ideas Is Doing Exactly What It’s Supposed To
The first month of the second Trump presidency has put the lie to the widespread wisdom that Donald Trump has no ideology and ...
The Best Argument Against Having Faith in God
Since last week’s newsletter offered a favorite argument for the existence of God, it’s only fair to balance the scales by ...
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Right-Wing Group ALEC Publishes Its Own Project 2025 — for the States
ALEC’s sweeping pay-to-play playbook for 2025 covers a host of other high-stakes issues and corporate pet policies that ...
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For Mary Midgley, the Western philosophical tradition is shaped by the fact that its greatest practitioners were bachelors
For Mary Midgley, the Western philosophical tradition is shaped by the fact that its greatest practitioners were bachelors ...
Taking a virtual hike: the slow, eerie pleasure of YouTube's video game walking tours
In Robert Walser's short fiction book The Walk, a young writer decides to step away from his desk and stroll through ...
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WG Sebald’s Silent Catastrophes — literary essays on Austrian writers
If you don’t want to sound academic, don’t subtitle an essay ‘On the Dialectics of Eschatology in Stifter and Handke’ A sense of Heimat, or homeland, is also key — and indisputably ...