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01, 2019
Stoicism & the Destruction of Man
Recently, the American Psychological Association (APA) took aim at “traditional masculinity” by, amongst other things, criticizing “stoicism” as one of its problematic characteristics (APA Guidelines 11). But the essence of stoicism, and our understanding of it, stems from a philosophy that is meant to allow the individual to reach their full potential as a human.
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01, 2019
Abraham Lincoln’s Request
Don’t Feed The Animals, A Series of Satirical Musings by Josh Lorenzo Dear Modern Republican Party, Seven score and fourteen
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01, 2019
Plato’s Crito: When should we break the law?
Plato’s Crito describes a conversation that takes place in 399 B.C.E. in an Athens prison, where Socrates awaits execution.Not long before, an assembly of more than 500 Athenian citizens convicted Socrates of corrupting the youth and impiety, essentially failing to respect the gods of the city.
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12, 2018
Scapegoat: How a Television Show Perpetuates Blame in the Dannemora Prison Break
By: Monica Duncan Showtime is now airing a new series about the 2015 escape from the Dannemora Prison in New
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11, 2018
President Donald Trump Lashes out at Mother Nature for Being a Woman
Speculation he’ll sign Executive Order renaming it “Father Nature” Don’t Feed The Animals, A Series of Satirical Musings by Josh Lorenzo
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10, 2018
One Year Later: Reflections on #MeToo
Social movements, like revolutions, tend to follow a similar cycle in the process of rewiring certain beliefs and norms of behavior. This cycle goes as follows: right-to-centre, centre-to-left, left-to-far left, back to centre, back to right.
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10, 2018
Senator Orrin Hatch Time Travelling to 1851
Mission to Correct America’s Timeline by Changing the Past Don’t Feed The Animals, A Series of Satirical Musings by: Josh Lorenzo
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09, 2018
On the Strange Agreement Between Artists and Trump Administration: Doubts About the International Criminal Court
Art of Politics, Politics of Art, A Series By: Jeanette Joy Harris In this series, Jeanette Joy Harris looks at how artists
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08, 2018
New Study Indicates that Childhood Vaccinations May Increase the Risk of Dying from Natural Causes Several Decades Later
Don’t Feed The Animals, A Series of Satirical Musings by: Josh Lorenzo Atlanta GA. – A recent public health study
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07, 2018
Populism: The Long Con
Populism is an old trick. It’s been around since the earliest democracies. Plato, Aristotle and all the classical thinkers wrote about it and rightly condemned it, understanding that it would naturally end with a demagogue.