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A lesson in how to die
feature In my father-in-law’s final six days, he joked and laughed, said good-bye, then peacefully slipped away surrounded by his family.
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Searching for a libertarian paradise
feature Not one of the world’s 193 sovereign states—not even a tiny one—has adopted a full-on libertarian system.
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Feeling free to hate Mormons
feature Disdaining all Mormons is “simple prejudice”—no better than hating all Catholics or Jews or blacks, said James Fallows at TheAtlantic.com.
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Sean Penn and other 'useful idiots'
feature Back in the days of the Russian Revolution, Vladimir Lenin referred to sympathetic foreigners as
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Capitalism is killing the middle class
feature Few like to admit it, but globalization and technology have triggered an economic revolution that’s “hostile to the middle-class majority,” said Chrystia Freeland at NYTimes.com.
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Bin Laden’s secret stash of porn
feature “Islam has a very rich tradition of sacred sexuality and eroticism,” but extremists have turned that tradition rancid with their misogyny, said Asra Q. Nomani in TheDailyBeast.com.
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Vlad Putin's favorite president
feature In seizing total control of his nation
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Executions should be televised
feature If we are to continue executing criminals in the U.S, we ought to do it in an open and accountable way, said Zachary B. Shemtob and David Lat at The New York Times.
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Buying local is bad for the planet
feature The “first-world food fetishes” of the Whole Foods crowd aren’t always good for the environment, and they hurt the world’s poor, said Charles Kenny at Foreign Policy.
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Che was a murderer, not a hero
feature The real Ernesto “Che” Guevara was far from the “youthful idealist” celebrated in film and transformed into a global icon, said Nick Gillespie in Reason.com.
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Is religion the root of all evil?
feature Religion, atheist authors argue in a spate of recent books, is
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The slippery slope of cohabitation
feature Most young couples now live together as a safe first step before marriage.
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How morality became obsolete
feature “I guess what makes something right is how I feel about it,” is a typical refrain, said David Brooks at The New York Times.
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Why a college education is overrated
feature High school students who show no aptitude for academics are better off earning a career-oriented associate degree, joining the military, or enrolling in job-training programs, said Marty Nemko in The Chronicle of Higher Education.
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