English is not normal: No, English isn’t uniquely vibrant or mighty or adaptable. But it really is weirder than pretty much every other language.
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Jerry Falwell’s aides break their silence - Current and former Liberty University officials describe a culture of fear and self-dealing at the largest Christian college in the world
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A history of Hong Kong's contentious politics
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The play deficit
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Was Sweden headed toward socialism in the 1970s?
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On this day in 1791, the only successful slave uprising in history began
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The metastasizing cancer of the Southern Strategy
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Marxism, Buddhism and socialism
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We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture
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The last days of John Allen Chau, the American missionary who was killed in November 2018 by the uncontacted tribe on North Sentinel Island
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The perilous trip of Iboga, Africa’s premier psychedelic
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Tainted by association: Would you carve a roast with a knife that had been used in a murder? Why not? And what does this tell us about ethics?
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Marxism and Buddhism: Life is suffering, whether you sit under a Bodhi Tree or stand with the workers. But do the two schools agree on the remedy?
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The Bronze Age of Scandinavia was made possible by trade with Great Britain
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A Propaganda Model - Excerpt from Manufacturing Consent
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The Impossible Dream - How have we come to build a whole culture around a futile, self-defeating enterprise: the pursuit of happiness?
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The oral history of the Super Soaker - How a NASA engineer accidentally invented the greatest water gun of all time
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When workers stopped Seattle
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Independence National Park is an embarrassing mess. Why doesn’t anyone care?
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Death In Ice Valley – New clues in Isdal Woman mystery
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A fundamentalist community forges a new identity: Hildale and Colorado City, born of fundamentalist LDS doctrine, are rebuilding themselves—but not without holding on to their core beliefs
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The case for reparations
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This land is whose land? Indian country and the shortcomings of settler protest.
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C.S. Peirce on science and belief
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'Where was the Lord?': On Jefferson Davis' birthday, nine slave testimonies
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The disadvantages of an elite education: Our best universities have forgotten that the reason they exist is to make minds, not careers
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Muslims of early America: Muslims came to America more than a century before Protestants, and in great numbers. How was their history forgotten?
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Abolish the priesthood: To save the Church, Catholics must detach themselves from the clerical hierarchy—and take the faith back into their own hands
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The Voynich Manuscript may have successfully been decoded
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Mankind, unite!
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Behemoth, bully, thief: How the English language is taking over the planet
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‘Deep Sleep’: How an amateur porno set off a massive Federal witch hunt
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Learning my father’s language: I made a vow to teach myself Irish, the language my mother struggled to learn, so that my daughters may learn it too
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Indigenous educators fight for an accurate history of California
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The spoil of mariners
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Increasingly competitive college admissions: much more than you wanted to know
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The intellectual we deserve – Jordan Peterson's popularity is the sign of a deeply impoverished political and intellectual landscape
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"Ethics" and ethics
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They had it coming - The parents indicted in the college-admissions scandal were responding to a changing America, with rage at being robbed of what they believed was rightfully theirs
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The illusion of a “marketplace of ideas” and the right to truth
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M-16: A bureaucratic horror story
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Stepping into the uncanny, unsettling world of Shen Yun
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The Neanderthal renaissance
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The imitation game: Some of the most beloved objects in Washington museums are not as authentic as visitors might assume
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The banality of empathy
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This, too, was history. The battle over police torture and reparations in Chicago’s schools.
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How the US has hidden its empire: The United States likes to think of itself as a republic, but it holds territories all over the world – the map you always see doesn’t tell the whole story.
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The philosopher redefining equality
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The fatal ensnaring of Dan DePew
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Seeking Utopia in Louisiana - The lost story of a group of socialists who built an extraordinary, but flawed, colony
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