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Long Division
… their current attractiveness from…isolating people from competing value systems,” Marty continues, while cults and … to recruit new members, cliques number only a few individuals and are closed to outsiders. Think of the table of … we’re willing to set aside our internal differences and die to preserve what we imagine is ours.  clique party sect …
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Is It Just, or Is It Fair?
… that wise ruler, to settle a dispute. One of the babies had died, and each woman insisted that she was the mother of the … story might have ended with tears and half-babies. That outcome might be just (if not a little hard-hearted), but it … lawful distribution of goods—not just concrete things, but also abstractions such as freedom. Something just has been …
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Solstice vs. Equinox
… Solstice vs. Equinox   When it comes to the workings of the universe, Albert Einstein … its position relative to the stars so that, over a nearly 26,000-​year cycle, Earth’s north pole points to different places in the sky, which yields minor …
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Of Scamps and Imps
… from Dick Turpin to Tom Sawyer. A literary case in point comes from the beloved children’s author Beverly Cleary, who died this spring at the estimable age of 104. A children’s …
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