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Was Thomas Hobbes Too Optimistic?
Time via Yahoo News· 7 months agoThis picture taken from the Israeli side of the border with the Gaza Strip, shows flares being fired by Israeli troops over the Gaza Strip during Israeli...
I Read the Embattled Columbia President’s Old Book About What We Owe Each Other. It’s … Not Good.
Slate via Yahoo News· 1 month agoColumbia University president Minouche Shafik is, on paper, a very impressive person. She has been a...
The gods of democracy are uneasy | Opinion
Knox News | The Knoxville News-Sentinel via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe political universe is not orderly. It needs direction. It needs rules. That’s why the gods of necessity invented government. But in doing so they...
Nashville needs a Leviathan, a mayor who's a leader and protector of residents | Opinion
The Tennessean via Yahoo News· 1 year agoEditor's note: Belmont University students are contributing essays around the Nashville mayoral race...
The Abuses of Prehistory
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 1 month agoOur prehistoric ancestors never went away. This is what Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari argued in his international blockbuster Sapiens: A Brief...
Democrats hate the Constitution and the shackles it puts on people
The Monroe News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoDuring the run-up to the recent elections, President Joe Biden and the Democrats were at pains to...
Philip Cross: The moral argument for fossil fuels
Financial Post via Yahoo Finance· 2 years agoThe latest book from Alex Epstein, American libertarian author and founder of the Center for Industrial Progress, elaborates the unapologetic arguments...
Landry: The Declaration
Lubbock Avalanche-Journal via Yahoo News· 11 months agoAs we celebrate this occasion, let us honor the past, remember the struggles, and strive for a future where the “government of the people, by the people,...
Paul F. deLespinasse: It's either government or something even worse
The Daily Telegram via Yahoo News· 1 year agoGovernment appears to be inevitable in today's world. But efforts to justify it have never been...
Letters to the editor for Saturday, December 31, 2022
The News-Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoHonesty no longer required Fifty years ago voters would have ranked honesty as one of the most important traits they look for in a political candidate; today I'm not sure honesty would figure ...
