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Jordan Peterson speaks—and we're gonna need a bigger shovel

As the old adage goes, if at first you make a fool of yourself... double down. You might remember that recently, Jordan Peterson got himself into embarrassingly hot water when he made a very public proclamation to his 2.7 million followers on Twitter that Yumi Nu—a singer, plus-size

Theodicies: Intellectual arguments don't eliminate toothaches

The problem of evil is the biggest thorn in the side of theism and religious belief, being an often emotive argument as to why there is so much suffering in the world if God was all-knowing, all-powerful, and all-loving. With those OmniGod characteristics, God would know enough to know what

earthquake of perspective

Putin meant to destroy Ukraine's identity. Instead, he's massively enhanced it

Though it's hard to know all of Vladimir Putin's intentions in the invasion of Ukraine, one thing is for sure: he intended to destroy Ukraine's independent identity as he subsumed the sovereign nation into a rose-tinted reformulation of the Soviet Union. But of the

earthquake of perspective

An ethical maze: Designing babies for a greater good?

Listen to this article, read by the author “At ten months old, we were told he would need a heart transplant. There was no cure for his condition, so we would have to go to Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital at some point. If they had a bed. And