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Would Human Extinction Be a Tragedy? | A modern society | Updike’s boozers | Poor whites’ suicides | Saul Bellow’s death | Fallacy of straight A’s | Inherited qualities | Fear of death | Isolation of innocence | Socrates’ Apology | Justice Jackson’s patriotism | Tweet-free Britain | Disbelieving science | Life | The world made for man? | Global warming’s escalator to hell | Shoreline retreat | First Thanksgiving | Killing women | Ruth Bader Ginger | Since World War I | The drunken waves | Sotomayor on profiling | Idealism awry | War on terror? | Cruelty to animals | The purpose of life | Friday Black | Private prisons | Life | American bedouins | Age | Richard Pryor on penitentiaries Corrections’ people skills | Life sentence | Ben Franklin | Fallen nation | Blithedale illusions | Corrupt politicians | What they’re fighting for | Self-censorship | Google in China | Walpole on life | Dissident press | Drug war assets | National Coming Out Day | Wrong warriors | This is war | Lying presidents | Stormy Daniels’s Thunder and Lightning | Mencken on representational art | | Sin of indifference | SNL on Kavanaugh | Blasey Ford on Kavanaugh | Trains as erotic force | Fascism | Trump’s Twitter | Kavanaugh’s damage | #MeToo’s flip side | Anita Hill on Kavanaugh hearings| Beccaria on torture | Ayn Rand’s mediocrity | Scalia on Bauer | Alzheimer’s | Entrepreneurs | Lessons of 9/11 | Verne’s death penalty | Suicide | Conservatism | Propaganda | Obama on McCain | On Jules Verne | Music by Rilke | Phyllis Schlafly | America at the mall | Standards of hating | Goldwater’s extremism | Live life | All The President’s Crooks | Sugar | De Gaulle | Government enslaved to special interests | Free press, II | Free press, I | Bureaucracy | Vivaldi | Drugs as Jesus | Machado de madness | The New New Republic | OxyContin’s power | Above the law | Bathroom businessman | Cranks | Drugstores | Sacha Baron Cohen | A Separate Peace | A man at 40 | Upward redistribution | War’s hangover | Patrick Henry’s monarchist constitution | Cohabitation in reason | Eiseley on Thoreau | Fear of truth | Trump correction | Trump’s immoral equivalencies | Newspaper trash | Pre-fascism | Eskimo wisdom | Private prison growth | Conned | Pointless preventive care | Balzac on self-righteousness | Sarah Palin’s jerks | Inarticulate Society | Harsh sentencing | Life expectancy narcissism | Democracy crisis, not civility crisis | Running | Hell and cancer | On W.E. 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