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A timeless 1990s Tom Hanks/Meg Ryan love story, You’ve Got Mail is also a treasure trove of applied economic principles. The budding online romance...
Dostoevsky: Demons & Communism
The novel Demons by Dostoevsky, published in 1872, is possibly the greatest ever anti-communist novel ever written. Which is ironic, since it was written long...
V for Vendetta, and the Politics of Obedience
The biggest mistake of V for Vendetta, the Alan Moore graphic novel adaptation from 2005, is that it depicts a too easy-to-hate totalitarian state....
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Bad Arguments Vol. 25 – Bad Faith Arguments
"If the goal was as stated, open discourse, then we wouldn't fall into the trappings of fallacious arguments. It is the secondary desire to win or to humiliate that perverts the discourse. It also leads to the inability to make corrections or accept faults in our own thinking."
