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Last week, Stephen Colbert gave conservatives our first laugh in 10 years of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, when…
The Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset wrote, “Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you…
Wandering through the stacks at the college library one day in my freshman year, I happened upon the shelves devoted…
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Years ago, Bob Dylan spoke of the Bible as both the most underrated and overrated book in the world. His…
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