Religion
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You may have read the article in the New Republic last month about how 300,000 ancient books and manuscripts in the libraries of Timbuktu were evacuated in secret to protect them from Ansar Dine, an Al Qaeda cell. The manuscripts not only survived the burning of the Timbuktu library, but were smuggled in footlockers all…
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I’ve never heard their music. It doesn’t matter. There is nothing more odious, nothing creepier, nothing more outrageous than the jailing of people whose only crime were in thought, writing and expression. It is the cornerstone of a free society–which Russia is clearly not–that all people have the right to express their views, and that…
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I recently met up with an old friend in Budapest and as we were walking near the city center, he asked me, quite randomly, “have you seen the Michael Jackson shrine?” I was intrigued, and it just so happened that it was less than a block away, so we went there, and sure enough, we…
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