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Liz Truss’s focus on increasing GDP over all other goals promotes an economics of deception.

Liz Truss’s focus on increasing GDP over all other goals promotes an economics of deception.

Evil in itself — or at any rate, what we call evil — has always seemed inexplicable.

From the blog of Gershon Hepner at The Times of Israel

There is no overthrowing something as rock-solid as common fondness for a happy old lady.

Sam Harris mocked religion by asking "Where is Heaven?", but his question is a good one that Christians should be prepared to answer.

Hugo Bettauer, who was born Jewish, was attacked by Otto Rothstock, a 20-year-old dental technician who had imbibed all the antisemitic propaganda of the age.

Iran’s former Supreme Leader, Ayatalloh Ruhollah Khomeini, who announced a fatwa calling on all Muslims to murder Rushdie in 1989, hadn’t read it at all.

Jewish-born Hugo Bettauer, whose 'The City Without Jews' became an international best seller, was assassinated after being denounced by Austrian Nazis

Writers seem to be especially vulnerable in polarized times, when the nuances of works are more likely to be overlooked.