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Tales of Unintended Consequences, Volume 1
When the Bolsheviks won the Russian civil war, and put their hands on the levers of power, the liberation of women was high on their list of goals.
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Flaws as Meta-Merits
On the ending of Huckleberry Finn
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Paradise Lost, 2: the lives of angels, the nature of epic, and “good lines.”
Adam asks Raphael, and you would too, admit it, about the sex lives of angels...
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“Abolish Marriage!”
Should governments get out of the marriage business?
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Goering at Nuremberg, 1
Robert H. Jackson was an Associate Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court by day, and one of the most eloquent men alive.
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Dispatch from the World of Payne
Jason Fitger, Professor of English, is charged on short notice and against his will with running Payne University’s Study Abroad program.
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American Impressionist
As a concept, “American Impressionism was always oxymoronic, like, say, Canadian salsa”: surely this sentence is too good to be true?
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Book Review: Paradise Lost by John Milton
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Opposition to Reason in Conservative Thought
“Conservatives are opposed to Reason”: a good summary, if one that makes for bad PR.
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About The Author
The author was born in California, and ever since, he has associated west with toward the ocean.
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All the Fun’s in How You Say a Thing by Timothy Steele: Review and Refutation
Part 2 of Theory of Meter
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Poets on Poets: Kirsch on Graham and Ashbery
Free verse often leaves me cold: my dirty little secret.
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