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- September/October 2000
- September 1, 2000
So far this millennium has packed a sprightly pace of events into the opening months (I choose to begin it with this year and not the next, as do some of the purists who are out of step with public perception, which is, after all, the only meaningful measure to something that is an artifice
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- September/October 2000
- November 1, 2000
Anthony told me about the routine: he was stripped naked, his hands and ankles were lashed together, a pole was threaded between his ankles, and he was hoisted up to hang head down. Then they beat the soles of his feet, sometimes for hours, until they were swollen and finally insensitive to pain. He told
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- September/October 2000
- March 1, 2000
The closing days of 1999, while full of talk of millennial possibilities, were curiously lacking in real optimism (blame Y2K if you like). Curious because the stock market (which may now have descended the depths) was at that time and the time of this writing sailing well beyond the 11,000 mark-an all-time high, buoyed up
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- September/October 2000
- July 1, 1998
However effective Quine's dismantling of Kant's analytic- synthetic distinction (arguing that it's all just semantics)– liberal political activism, which seeks to remove any conception of "the good life" from political discourse, does essentially the same with such antipodal linguistic inanities as "neutral values." This common phrase, devoid of even the most basic reason and ration-ality,
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- September/October 2000
- March 1, 1997
"Truth is what the majority thinks it is at any given moment precisely because the majority is permitted to govern and redefine its values constantly." – Robert Bork "Sooner orlater we all have to accept something as given, whether it is God, or logic, or a set of laws, or some other foundation of existence."
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- September/October 2000
- September 1, 1998
"We have taken the sword of Caesar, and in taking it, of course, we have rejected Thee and followed him." –The Grand Inquisitor In the greatest chapter ("The Grand Inquisitor") in the greatest novel (The Brothers Karamazov) of the West's greatest novelist (Fyodor Dostoyevsky), Jesus Christ returns to earth–not in heavenly glory on bright clouds
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