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An atheist's case for why American democracy needs a more Christlike Christianity.
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Americans say we value free speech, but recent surveys suggest we love the ideal more than practice, a division that will harm more than it protects.
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It’s the most popular—and least reality-based—sentiment of the disgruntled white college applicant with high scores: a black kid took my seat.
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The “endowment effect" explains our irrational tendency to overvalue something just because we own it.
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