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The Aroma Round 

It’s been a couple of years since I’ve been back to my hometown of Lake Placid, New York. On a recent FaceTime conversation with my mother, she...

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Private School Helped Make Me a Socialist

There’s a famous quote, attributed to various people, that says, “If a man is not a socialist by the time he is 20, he has no heart. If he is not...

05.11.2024 7

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Yes, You Should Leave Twitter

The other day, I read someone on X, the social-media hub formerly known as Twitter, say the argument against individualism in left-wing spaces has...

22.10.2024 6

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Cultivated-Meat Nationalism

Eleven Republican members of Congress recently sent a letter to the director of national intelligence and the USDA’s director of homeland security,...

15.10.2024 7

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Can Cultivated Meat Take Off Before the Inevitable Tech Backlash?

I recently saw a software developer boasting on social media about his new artificial-intelligence program which allowed users to convincingly swap...

03.10.2024 4

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Animal Activists are “Poor in Spirit”

In the first beatitude, Jesus says, “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.” The analogous blessing from the Sermon...

10.09.2024 8

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