Culture
New history (with comics) recounts humanity’s long march toward reason
August 2, 2016These stories of humanists through history are framed as struggles against the authority of the church, which controlled almost every aspect of life for millennia.
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I watched Dinesh D’Souza’s awkward anti-Hillary movie so you don’t have to
August 2, 2016D'Souza selectively culls, bends, and ultimately breaks history in a desperate attempt to show how all evil flows from Democrats.
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New book explores the roots of the term “White trash”
August 1, 2016Some landless whites in early America who survived war, workhouses, prostitution, and press gangs ditched their poverty wages and constricted lives and lit out for the territories.
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“Jason Bourne” film: Don’t trust the CIA
August 1, 2016What's arguably most interesting about Jason Bourne is its up-to-the-minute topicality, ripping those proverbial headlines right off the front pages.
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American Gods: Cast, producers talk whitewashing, Mike Pence, new trailer
July 25, 2016Imagine a world where supernatural personifications of the internet, capitalism, and media are newly formed gods hell-bent on taking power.
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