| What would it be
like to be brought up by George Orwell? Pretty grim, you might think.
You would be wrong...
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Marx was wrong.
The opiate of the masses isn’t religion, but spectator sports, says
David Barash. It’s in our genes....
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Was Einstein
wrong? Quantum effects not only go against deep intuitions about the
world, they undermine special relativity...
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| China may sustain
growth for another two decades and vindicate the optimists. But there
are strong odds that China’s growth will fizzle...
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For all the
wonders of our global era, Jews, Muslims, and Christians seem ever more
locked in mortal combat. But maybe this story can have a happy ending...
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The American Dream
has not gone sour, says David Kamp: it can still give citizens a decent
chance to scale the walls and achieve what they wish...
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Is religion innate? Would children raised in
isolation spontaneously create their own religious beliefs? Paul Bloom
says yes....
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Rousseau was a
genius, but also a selfish, half mad, paranoid egomaniac. The lovable
David Hume, on the other hand...
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“Natural
selection” and “survival of the fittest.” Two phrases that have misled
many about the true nature of evolution...
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| Just as we have
the same bones in our hands as chimps, so we share a deep desire to kill
members of our own species. Hey, are those bones the same?...
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History is larger
than science, since science is part of history, says John Lukacs. First
came nature, then came man, then science. No scientists, no science...
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“Like Pascal, like
Kierkegaard and Tolstoy, indeed like Nietzsche....” Who are you reading?
Must be George Steiner. If you don’t care much for high culture, Steiner
will care on your behalf...
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