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' Certain personal experiences of the past few days have led me to consider, yet again, how thin-skinned and tetchy Americans are --- how quickly their tolerance for dissent and the opinions of other people disappears when criticism of their society and ways of doing things becomes at all...

' HOW TO SAVE MODERN CIVILIZATION---or, a Modest Proposal for electoral reform I want to bulld up a social order which can moderate the coming world-wide social catastrophe, and, I hope, provide structures for a new order of society which can grow in the wreckage of what is to come. I...

I'm sure everyone's heard of the Mosque/community center proposal near Ground Zero that has caused quite a bit of controversy in the past few days. Many New Yorkers and relatives of 9-11 victims oppose the plan and President Obama initially defended the proposal, citing that the government...