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Arguing the World is the story of four brilliant and engaging men
Arguing the World is the story of four brilliant and engaging men caught up in the central struggles of our time. This enthralling film creates a vivi...

I think we can be more specific. It seems to me that educated
I think we can be more specific. It seems to me that educated people should know something about the 13-billion-year prehistory of our species and the...

Yet observers shouldn’t be misled by the GOP’s back-to-Bush
Yet observers shouldn’t be misled by the GOP’s back-to-Bush drift. Three big trends have decisively changed the Republican Party over the past dec...

Mathematics is the backbone of modern science and a remarkably
Mathematics is the backbone of modern science and a remarkably efficient source of new concepts and tools to understand the “reality” in which we...

GIVE us this day our daily bread. Wheat was one of the first crops
GIVE us this day our daily bread. Wheat was one of the first crops to be domesticated and for thousands of years it has been a staple food for a large...

But what about happiness on its own terms, apart from contrast?
But what about happiness on its own terms, apart from contrast? More than anything else, I think of a scene from the very novel whose opening sentence...