(To be read with the preceding post) When I read this at Jack Whelan’s After the Future, I was surprised by my own reaction: almost everything in me le...

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Crusader against religion Sam Harris (who, largely through his own tireless efforts, now merits our culture’s coveted prefix “bestselling”) in...

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In case any of you despair about the workers who will be supporting you in retirement: Educational doomsayers are again up in arms at a new adult literacy study showing tha...

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If you are interested in any way in the issue of gay marriage — or, if you are interested in the possibility of civil discourse between pe...

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Robert Anton Wilson, quoted by Commenter “Nick” at Church of the Churchless: DO NOT BELIEVE ANYTHING This remark was made, in these very words, by John Gribbin, physics editor of New Scien...

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Many of our commenters on this post (at AmbivaBlog) took issue with the spirited defense of New Deal-rooted American social democracy expre...

Continue Reading “Conservative” Doesn’t Mean What You Think: A Guest Post By Jack Whelan

[Warning, some explicit language herein] Here is someone who rejects the notion that the explosion of digital pornography is a thing to be ...

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Or is it that “the GOP and its media and energy constituencies will do everything they can to discredit attempts to deal with global wa...

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In this world, especially where power is concerned, the brilliant sanity of an idea almost always seems to be in inverse proportion to its li...

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I’ll give you a hint. It has something to do with our energy crisis. Jeremy Dibbell has the answer. ...

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. . . sign me up. Have you read The Euston Manifesto? (Apologies to Donklephant readers if I’m the last to know about this. However, i...

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