It may be pleasant to fantasize about returning to the days when there was less need for a robust central government, but our world is not Jefferson's.
The corporate person is a convenient myth, a mechanism of protection and profit.
Those who oppose equal protection for homosexuals and who are outraged by the Court’s decision say that it is “incompatible with scripture,” but a closer look at the book reveals […]
When we justify torture, we are all endangered, because in practice this means there are no moral or legal limits on how humans behave.
If we know by experience that excessive time in the sun can cause skin cancer, what sort of damage can we expect from exposure to nuclear waste?
I’d like to see a prohibitionist play the horn like old Satchmo. And Armstrong isn’t alone — hundreds if not thousands of artists throughout history have used drugs in one […]
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