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How do we protect our political resolve from oversaturation of the attention economy?

After all this time, we still struggle with Thrasymachus's challenge that merely appearing just is all that's important.

Having been co-opted by various organizations, it's unclear what the long-toothed skull stands for.

This cautionary tale refuses to play political football with skeptics and simply fast-forwards to the end.

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"I wear the chain I forged in life. I made it link by link and yard by yard. I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it."

Why is it so difficult for us to appreciate the wisdom in the adage that it's the thought that counts?

The particulars regarding moral knowledge put Santa's capacity for accurate assessment of others' moral character in grave doubt.

Plato and Aristotle seem to be at odds when it comes to explaining our attraction to pretty things.

When the algorithm makes a mistake, whose responsibility is it to provide an explanation?

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In failing to appreciate the fullness of others' moral autonomy we do them a disservice.

Can our familial responsibilities run counter to our moral obligations, or is such an apparent conflict only an illusion?

Global vaccine equity not only serves the least well-off, it also happens to be what's in all of our interests.

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