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Seduced by Inequality
It’s important to have empathy, but humanizing the devil doesn’t change his plans.
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How our present moment is like a dysfunctional family system
In the years running up to the Civil War, Congress was acting like a dysfunctional family system. Here’s why knowing that matters.
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The problem with the way we talk about poverty
Our skeptical approach to talking about poverty is gross. It’s also intellectually lazy and fundamentally based on opinion, not reality.
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Continuing a failed war on terror is a moral failure
The great moral failure wasn’t only in launching the war on terror, it has been in continuing it in spite of all the moral and statistical evidence. The social share title reads “The scene of America’s longest war is now world’s terrorism hotspot”. Nearly 18 years into the war on terror, this headline should be…
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Rethink Voting
Voting in the United States looks nothing like the open, efficient, and fair rhetoric we use to describe it. It’s time we changed that. I looked up the closest polling place on my phone. Then drove to it. The door was locked. I looked it up again. The location was right. It was clearly the…
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Welcome to Bizarro World
There’s a certain kind of bizarro argument we put up with. An intentional deception which claims we’re all responsible for our demise. They’re wrong. I honestly couldn’t believe what I was reading. It was like buying a copy of Superman and finding the issue is really about Bizarro. Women should leave the dirty world of…
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Pipe Bombs and Fascists
We hide the truth behind violence and blind justifications. And yet our fears make the danger all the greater for those seeking the truth. Reading this morning that two more pipe bombs were prevented from being delivered to prominent Democrats, media, and civilians chills me to the bone. It leaves me fearful and confused; frustrated…
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We are abdicating our responsibility for maintaining a culture of truth
Our problem isn’t that we can’t tell when someone’s lying. It’s that we refuse to punish those who lie or protect those who tell the truth. Truth is a weighty topic. And yet it all feels so subjective. The elephant parable comes to mind. The one in which many people touch the different parts of…