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George Orwell famously wrote in Politics and the English Language (1946) that "political language is designed to make lies ...

A few years ago, at a conference on human rights and democracy, a senior academic pulled me aside after my talk and said, ...

When Buckethead arrived on the scene in the 1990s, he embodied the phrase “a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.” The guitar shredder ushered in a new era of guitar wizardry and remains one ...

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On the sunny campus of UC Berkeley, one day in 1968, Don Symons had a conversation with Richard Dawkins. Dawkins was 8 years from publishing the book that would make him a celebrity: The Selfish Gene.