To succumb to pressure to suppress or disguise his true beliefs would have been, for Spinoza, a concession equivalent to ...

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He was also the Great Deregulator.” T here is little we can say about former President Jimmy Carter—who will lie in state in ...

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Johnny Payne is the arts editor at Merion West. Johnny is a poet, novelist, playwright, and essayist. He has worked extensively in Latin American Studies, especially literature under dictatorship and ...

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In the remainder of his response, Block leaves aside the specifics of political economy (and thus the vast majority of what I wrote) to riff about egalitarianism as a general moral impulse. Much of ...