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Liberal democracy notwithstanding, the desire for strength, unmitigated, unalloyed power is more a part of our nature than for any compassionate, considerate inclusiveness. We have been sold a bill of goods by Jesus, Ivan Karamazov claims, offering majesty, miracles, and authority giving it rise to institutional hegemony; but Ivan was wrong. We love and want authority, the more unassailable the better

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The paper published by one of the premier medical journals in the United States known for the rigor of its peer review process, contended that there was a systemic, functional link between inchoate, irrational, political belief and disturbances in the cerebral cortex which over time were adapted by the brain as predictable behavior

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EVs, SUVs, LAWN SIGNS, AND THE PRESUMPTION OF RIGHT - THE GULAG OF GROUPTHINK How and why is there so little logic, so little independent thought, so much intellectual conformity and so dutiful a slavishness to prevailing, narrow norms in progressive communities? Either the smartest people on the block are actually the dumbest, or the virus of progressivism is fatal. Probably both.

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BIG GAME HUNTING IN AN AGE OF VIRTUAL REALITY - WHY NOT SHOOT TO KILL? We have entered a revolutionary period in human evolution. Virtual reality will replace 'real' reality and no one will miss it. One will 'be' on a virtual savannah, leaving live game to hunters.

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MISOGYNY OR A BAD STREAK OF NASTY WOMEN? THERE ARE ENOUGH OF THEM OUT THERE TO MAKE A MAN WONDER Robbie was a happy man because of insight, skill, and savvy. He found many women irresistible, fascinating, complex, and alluring, and others not worth spare change; but life was like that, a mish-mash of conundrums. Most men were befuddled by women and by life. Not him.

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A SOCIAL REFORMER'S LAST GASP - TESLA, TRUMP, AD A DIRE, INCONSEQUENTIAL END He waited for the sounds of protest. His comrades would be assembling demanding his release, a political prisoner, a slave to autocratic rule, but nada, not a peep

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PROGRESSIVE EQUIPOISE - DOING THE RIGHT THING BUT STILL ENDING UP WITH THE SHIT END OF THE STICK He left them holding the shit end of the stick when they had been promised the white, clean end; but life was more cesspool that virginal delight, so the sooner these fools recognized the fact, the better. Don't be buggered about black men, lesbians, or the climate, moral red herrings all.

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MY NAME IS BRUCE, AND I'LL BE YOUR SERVER TONIGHT, OR A FOODIE CIRCUS - THE END OF FAUX HAUTE CUISINE Like everything American, the new cuisine could simply not be left alone, and architectural towers, Art Deco arrangements of edible flowers and pine, and decorative presentations of sea urchin and foie gras took over. And if one was still hungry after three courses of the same, was it uncouth to ask for bread?

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HAPPINESS IS A HARD PILL TO SWALLOW - PROGRESSIVISM AND THE SAD DEMISE OF A MOROSE SOCIAL REFORMER Bob was not a happy man, but in his depressing rectitude, very content. What was there to be happy about, he mused, when the world was beset by predatory capitalists, mindless racists, and homophobic fools?

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WHEN SOCIAL JUSTICE GOES SOUTH - DONALD TRUMP AND THE EDUCATION OF A HOPELESS IDEALIST 'Goddamn it!', Bob shouted to the holly bush, 'Goddamn it again!' but there was no solace or refuge there. The dice had been rolled decades ago, and as much as he had lately learned that progressive Utopianism gets you nowhere fast, he could only look out the window and realize that the birdbath was empty.

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AN IVY LEAGUE BELLE DE JOUR - A YALE CALL GIRL WITH A PEDIGREE AND A BRIGHT FUTURE Men will always be men, Yale or Podunk - all dumbly, reverently anxious. She had no sexual conflicts to resolve, simply a nymphet with no inhibiting morality

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THE BLACK MAN DISAPPEARS - THE DEMISE OF DEI AND THE RESETTING OF THE NATION'S MORAL COMPASS Eliminating DEI is not a superficial step or the fulfillment of a campaign promise, but a systemic change and one central to returning America to its originalist roots. 'Black' will mean nothing except a demographic indicator.

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Her skin crawled when she heard 'Hitler' shouted and 'Nazi' bandied about. Each time called up memories of the camps, the ghetto, the SS, the boxcars, and the ovens. She wanted to step out onto her balcony and yell to the streets below, 'Stop it!; but she was an old lady who thought she would live out her last days in peace, and drawing on still powerful reserves of spirit and rectitude, sat down, and waited for the awful moment to pass.

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The young women, tired, worn, and hungry were in the best of moods. Victory was a heady affair, and they had certainly won. Won what was not the question, for the fact of so many voices raised in unison creating one great orchestral piece on Washington's front lawn was more than enough.

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ROBBED OF PALESTINE - THE IVY LEAGUE SCURRIES TO FIND ANOTHER DISTRACTION Columbia, stung by the White House reprimand, and bound and determined to show that they had not been intimidated by this conservative Anschluss, backed the demonstrators to the hilt. 'We are for diversity, inclusion, and equity' no matter what'; and with that raised the gay pride and old Black Lives Matter flags high above the library

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THE IVY LEAGUE OR AGGIEVILLE STATE? YALE GOES GHETTO, BALACLAVA, AND GENDER-QUEER 'We are back', shouted LaShonda Williams, an affirmative action baby, putting her arms around a proudly transgender Blaise Underwood. Whether Yale will regain any of its former cachet is another story. Having become a woke caricature and its student body no different than Aggieville State, why go Ivy League?

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DOING GOOD OR HAVING FUN? THE POOR ARE SATISFYING, FUN IS JUST A STATE OF MIND Stumbling out the door into the bright May sunlight an hour later, drunk as a skunk, but completely deadened to the depressing thought of the loss of the poor, a livelihood, and moral rectitude, he was momentarily heartened. 'Who the fu-k cares?', he shouted to no one in particular, caught the N4 and headed home.