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Love and Death

by Alan Jacobs
Posted on January 26, 2021 in THR Web Features
Image: Grandparents. sylviebliss via Wikimedia Commons.

“Quality of life” calculations leave out far too much that matters for human flourishing.

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More Than Just a Word

by Richard Hughes Gibson
Posted on January 20, 2021 in THR Web Features
Image: Arthimedes/Shutterstock.

Americans have been making arguments about the nature of their unity from the beginning.

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Is Trumpism Marxism?

by Ronald Osborn
Posted on January 14, 2021 in THR Web Features
Image: Karl Marx, public domain; President Donald Trump/Montinique Monroe/Getty Images.

On the dangerous absurdity of political caricature.

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Our Manorial Elite

by Alan Jacobs
Posted on January 12, 2021 in THR Web Features
Image: Palmse manor house in Estonia. Abrget47j via Wikimedia Commons.

Call them warlords or the manorial elite, our massive transnational tech companies will protect us only when they believe it is in their interest to do so.

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A History Lesson from Alexander Hamilton

by Richard Hughes Gibson
Posted on January 8, 2021 in THR Web Features
Image: Inside the US Capitol on January 6, 2021; CNN.

The events of January 6 went off script.

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The School for Scale

by Alan Jacobs
Posted on January 6, 2021 in THR Web Features
Image: Portrayal of discussion. Oliver Tacke via Wikimedia Commons.

The problem with scale is that we don’t understand it.

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