Sensory overload and annals of lying
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Why are we in the West so weird? A theory
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Is the University of Edinburgh right to rename its David Hume Tower?
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From its origins airing the banter of bored firefighters to its robust classical programming today, Dallas’s WRR-FM has filled an unusual niche on the airwaves for nearly a century
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Academics are really, really worried about their freedom
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Confessions of a former bastard cop
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Ask Kim Kierkegaardashian: Worldly Goods vs. the Greater Good
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The Bush-Gore recount is an omen for 2020: An oral history of the craziest presidential election in modern US history
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The hard problem of breakfast — How does it emerge from bacon and eggs?
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What the problem of moral luck can teach us about lockdown rule-breakers
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What is MasterClass actually selling?
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The meaning of death
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How the Simulmatics Corporation invented the future
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In the decades before the American civil war, violence broke out in Congress too
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Hiroshima (1946)
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Ancient Rome was teetering. Then a volcano erupted 6,000 miles away
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How time vanishes: The more we study it, the more protean it seems
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How should I refer to you? | Review of “What's Your Pronoun?”, by Dennis Baron
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The history of the US Army's 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, the largest unit of black servicewomen to ever deploy overseas
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What is owed: If true justice and equality are ever to be achieved in the United States, the country must finally take seriously what it owes Black Americans
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The rape kit’s secret history - This is the story of the woman who forced the police to start treating sexual assault like a crime
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Is there still room for debate?
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The still-vital case for liberalism in a radical age
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The educational standardization trap
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How the coronavirus compares with 100 years of deadly events
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The case for reparations: We've had 250 years of slavery, 90 years of Jim Crow, 60 years of separate but equal and 35 years of racist housing policy. Without addressing this, the US can't move on
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President? Why not? Says a man at the top.
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How conspiracy theories fueled the US civil war
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Early warnings: How American journalists reported the rise of Hitler
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Pandemic escape: Volunteers transcribe Sally Ride’s papers, Rosa Parks’s recipes, Walt Whitman’s poems
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How white backlash controls American progress: Backlash dynamics are one of the defining patterns of the country’s history
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The Kentucky miner who scammed Americans by claiming he was Hitler and plotting a ‘revolt’ with ‘spaceships’
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The coming disruption - Scott Galloway predicts a handful of elite universities and tech companies will soon monopolize higher education
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Why did GE Moore disappear from history?
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The great 5G conspiracy - Part of a series on conspiracy thinking in America
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An Oxford professor, an evangelical collector, and a missing gospel of Mark: A scholar claimed that he discovered a first-century gospel fragment, now faces allegations of theft, cover-up, and fraud
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Children growing up after this crisis will use far more oral language after it ends
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Charles Coughlin, the 'Radio Priest' who brought fascism to America in the 1930s (1979)
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Who invented the wheel? And how did they do it?
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How Narendra Modi serves the Hindu ideal of Bharat in opposition to secular ideals of India
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How Americans discussed democracy in the 1930's
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Sixteen and evangelical
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The world is experiencing a new form of autocracy
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The history of a Cold War mastermind: Gus Weiss, a shrewd intelligence insider, pulled off an audacious tech hack against the Soviets in the last century. Or did he?
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In 1721, Boston’s colonists greeted Cotton Mather’s proposal for smallpox inoculation with a terror that bordered on hysteria
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The term ‘oriental’ is outdated, but is it racist?
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The Muslim world’s question: ‘What happened to us?’
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The Hamilton Hustle
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Prohibition was a failed experiment in moral governance
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How a Chase Bank chairman helped the deposed shah of Iran enter the US
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