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The Better Angels of Our Nature

“Charles Napier, the British army’s commander in chief in India, faced with local complaints about the abolition of suttee (the Hindu practice of a widow sacrificing herself on her husband’s funeral...

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A World Split Apart: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Nobel Speech

“The current Western view of the world was first born during the Renaissance and found its political expression in the period of the Enlightenment. It became the basis for government and social...

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Pope Francis: Radical Traditionalist

On a chilly evening in St. Peter’s Square last week, a little boy upstages Francis. He wanders up to the pope, clings to him, and stays by his side. At one point, as Francis delivers his homily, the...

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If We Do Not Stand for Western Values, Who Will?

“I talk at a lot of campuses, and I was at one last night in London where a student got up and started protesting because I had said that an Islamist government was of itself a bad thing, which I...

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Theodore Roosevelt on Setting the Right Example as a Man

“Every man here knows the temptations that beset all of us in this world. At times any man will slip. I do not expect perfection, but I do expect genuine and sincere effort toward being decent and...

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Martin Amis on Terror, Iraq, and His Father

Jon Snow: Look at the war on Iraq – do you not think that would stir an urge in the Arab world when they see women and children ravaged by what we Westerners are doing? Martin Amis: I’ve said in print...

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Martin Luther King: What Does the Story of the Good Samaritan Teach Us?

“Let us develop a kind of dangerous unselfishness. One day a man came to Jesus; and he wanted to raise some questions about some vital matters in life. At points, he wanted to trick Jesus, and show...

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How Society Operates

Laurie Taylor: One of the things people say about your books is the difficulty in feeling any empathy or sympathy for the characters… why aren’t your characters lovable? Will Self: But people aren’t...

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Gore Vidal Obliterates Ayn Rand

“She is fighting two battles: the first, against the idea of the State being anything more than a police force and a judiciary to restrain people from stealing each other’s money openly… But it is...

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Wallace Stegner: What I Believe

“It is terribly difficult to say honestly, without posing or faking, what one truly and fundamentally believes… However far I have missed achieving it, I know that moderation is one of the virtues I...

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Andrew Sullivan: What I Believe

“I believe in liberty… I believe in a system of government that places that liberty at the center of its concerns, that enforces the law solely to protect that freedom, that sides with the individual...

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The Morality of Abraham

“A secret always makes you tremble… A quiver can of course manifest fear, anguish, apprehension of death; as when one quivers in advance, in anticipation of what is to come. But it can be slight, on...

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Will Self: The Problem at the Heart of Utilitarianism

“The principle ideologue of British society is Jeremy Bentham and his Utilitarianism, which puts forward the idea that the aim of society should be to achieve the greatest good/happiness for the...

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How Will Future Historians Appraise the American Experiment?

“People are free to choose whatever view they wish to hold. If it were up to me, all intellectuals would be defending our kind of society. Let me add to this: I think American civilization, as a...

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David Brooks: What Do We Mean When We Say Someone’s “Deep”?

“I think we mean that the person is capable of experiencing large and sonorous emotions… People who are deep are spiritual. They’ve come to some stable philosophical convictions about fundamental...

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What the Outrage over Cecil the Lion Says about Our Warped Moral Priorities

I imagine you have some thoughts about how well spent the moral outrage of seven billion people has been on Cecil the Lion. “I do. Look, there’s some reason to believe the dentist did do something...

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Sam Harris: Why I Decided to Have Children

Interviewer: You’ve briefly discussed the ethics of having children and the evidence that parents are less happy and less productive than their child-free counterparts. Why did you decide to have...

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Sam Harris: The Meaning of the Paris Attacks

“This is the big story of our time, and it is an incredibly boring one. Let the boredom of this just sink into your bones: realize that for the rest of your life, you’re going to be reading and...

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Two Things Fill the Mind with Awe

“Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and the more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above and the moral law within. I have not to search...

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