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“There is no such thing as not worshipping,” wrote novelist David Foster Wallace. “Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.” G. Jung would have wholeheartedly agreed. He posited that psychic life is motivated by a religious instinct as fundamental as any other, and that this instinct
The first concerns the relationship of theory to practice; the second, the relationship of liberalism to its preliberal inheritance.
What would the government consider evidence of discrimination? How much activity counted as a good faith effort toward equal opportunity?
Dry herbs, pre-rolls, oils, vaporisers, drinks, balms, and a host of different kinds of edibles were all available to the seasoned and the curious.
Every regime hits peaks and troughs. What is the evidence that this present crisis is terminal failure, rather than another periodic setback?
Gathering by the campfire in our ideological tribes, we bask in the warm glow of unchallenged beliefs.
‘Grid Girls’ – models employed by Formula One for promotional purposes – have just discovered that their role is to be discontinued.
On a topic of particular pertinence to our own cultural moment, Billy Wilder’s 1960 classic is a fascinating artefact well worth revisiting.
What definition of spanking is used, etc. Local skirmishes about this will continue.
The effect of the #MeToo movement, especially in Canada, is creating the same subdued atmosphere among men.
The woman raped by Roman Polanski when she was thirteen reflects on her candid memoir, #MeToo, and the culture of victimhood.
This Orientalism has clouded how many on the Western Left understand and approach minority cultures within their own societies.
Events that transpire around the world and large-scale societal changes seem to be far beyond the control of any single person.
Social networks are effective at increasing participation – by lessening the level of motivation that participation requires.
The fundamental Buddhist dictum is that “life is suffering” and that the only way of transcending this suffering is to face up to it squarely.