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March 2024

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Brad Skow
Romanticism, I: Revaluation of Values
The Roots of Romanticism by Isaiah Berlin
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Side Note: The Documentary Fallacy Fallacy
In Who’s afraid of A. C. Bradley? Henry Oliver comes out in favor of “talk[ing] about Shakespeare’s characters as if they were people.” He…
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On Balance
In the 1930s, Winston Churchill was in disgrace and in the political wilderness. His warnings of the Nazi danger, and of the dangers of appeasement…
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On Toleration
Intolerance and polarization are on the up, or so the headlines say. If so, it’s happened before, and been far worse. Thomas Jefferson wrote, it does me…
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Sugar-Coated Pills
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February 2024

Free Indirect Style in The Red Badge of Courage
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Evolution and the Dynamics of Technological Change
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Alien Metaphysics
A Love Poem
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Covers and Remakes
“Nothing Compares 2 U”—in the guise of Sinead O’Connor’s recording—grabbed the number 2 slot, on Esquire’s 50 Best Cover Songs Ever. In any best-of…
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