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How Much Do Our Genes Influence Our Political Beliefs? - NYTimes.com
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Language Log » Critical take-downs
John Mason Brown's review of an actor playing King Lear: He played the King as if afraid someone else would play the Ace.
Friday, July 18, 2014
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Slate: Sweden’s School Choice Disaster
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Tuesday, July 15, 2014
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16 metro Phoenix restaurants on Guy Fieri's show
16 metro Phoenix restaurants on Guy Fieri's show
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Slate: RIP, Charlie Haden
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Thursday, July 10, 2014
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When Beliefs and Facts Collide - NYTimes.com
The deeper problem is that citizens participate in public life precisely because they believe the issues at stake relate to their values and ideals, especially when political parties and other identity-based groups get involved – an outcome that is inevitable on high-profile issues. Those groups can help to mobilize the public and represent their interests, but they also help to produce the factual divisions that are one of the most toxic byproducts of our polarized era. Unfortunately, knowing what scientists think is ultimately no substitute for actually believing it.
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Hobby Lobby's Not Alone: Here Are 4 of the High Court's Biggest Science Blunders | Mother Jones
In a paper in the Harvard Law Review dissecting the case, Yale law professor Dan Kahan eviscerated Scalia's dissenting opinion (which was joined by Justice Thomas), calling it "a species of cynicism toxic to reasoned self-government."
Discovery Institute Moves into Abortion Debate | The Sensuous Curmudgeon
Slate: 7 Of The Best Dialect Quizzes
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Monday, July 07, 2014
Wandering attention
--William James
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Saturday, July 05, 2014
Friday, July 04, 2014
6 quotes that will remind your conservative family of Abraham Lincoln's liberalism Blue Nation Review
"I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed."
- Abraham Lincoln, Nov. 21, 1864 (letter to Col. William F. Elkins)
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James Wood begins his New Yorker review of Gilbert's novelwith this comment on the unusual title:
---SteveThe stunted title of David Gilbert's second novel, "& Sons" (Random House), does a lot of useful work. It hints at succession but also at severance; at a family tree but also at a broken commercial line. The implied absence gestures toward the great stories of intergenerational struggle: Turgenev's "Fathers and Sons," Gosse's "Father and Son." And then there is that cocky ampersand: slightly offensive in its abstraction, wearily dismissive, the key to the whole coda.
Thursday, July 03, 2014
The Greatest Dietary Guidance? If It Gets Cold, Reheat It! | David Katz, M.D.
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Tuesday, July 01, 2014
The 49-page Supreme Court Hobby Lobby ruling mentioned women just 13 times - The Washington Post
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