Jacob Brogan's Slate piece: "The Shame of Finding Your Younger Self Online." Whether your politics have changed or you’ve simply become more cynical, confronting your digital past can be cringeworthy.
"The Ethics of Killing Baby Hitler." Fascinating Atlantic piece on whether time-traveling back to kill baby Hitler would be a moral--and even an historical--good.
"Some have questioned why Christianity, which would have formed a central part of the lives of the aristocracy in the early 20th century, is largely absent from [Downton Abbey]. Now the man tasked with ensuring the historical accuracy of the series has revealed why Downton does not do God. Alastair Bruce, who serves as the show’s historical advisor, said that executives in charge of the series had ordered producers to 'leave religion out of it', for fear of alienating an increasingly atheistic public." The Telegraph
Ghosts, or at least belief in them, have been around for centuries but they have now found a particularly strong following in highly secular modern countries like Norway, places that are otherwise in the vanguard of what was once seen as Europe’s inexorable, science-led march away from superstition and religion....Arild Romarheim, a Lutheran priest and recently retired theology lecturer, described the conviction of well-educated atheists and agnostics that ghosts exist as “the paradox of modernity” — a revival of old beliefs to slake an innate human thirst for a spiritual life left unsatisfied by the decline of the church." (NYT)
This is an excellent post on weighing the words we use when engaging pro-choice people in conversation.
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