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The word “turkey” can refer to everything from the bird itself to a populous Eurasian country to movie flops.
After 10,000 years of civilization, have we figured out what virtue is?
Deaths of despair are skyrocketing in the U.S., while at the same time, they are falling in other wealthy countries. What are we doing wrong?
In terms of sheer productivity, “-gate” has no peer. Wikipedia’s list of -gates has over 260 entries.
Contrary to popular belief, it’s not to mark Mexican independence.
To clear Scotland’s roads in winter, the local traffic agency employs heavy machinery with punny names. Can you grit and bear it?
Despite losing most of his extended family to the guillotine, Tocqueville grew up to become a fervent supporter of democratic revolution.
Famished, not famous: retrace Orwell’s hunger days, when he was one of the city’s legion of poor foreigners.
The early colonists thought they were being pulled by God into a void left by plague.
Nothing is 100% safe or 100% effective, but vaccine-hesitancy is even worse. It’s one of the most important decisions you’ll ever make in your life: do I vaccinate my child, and […]