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Are the Arba'in pilgrimage numbers Iranian propaganda?
On the 'largest peaceful gatherings' and the difficulty of estimating
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What and why is Easter?
The primary Christian feast day is evidence of the apocalypse cult that still lies buried beneath the edifice of modern Christianity, which peeks out…
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'Banning it less hard': non-fatal strangulation
Despite much fanfare, the new non-fatal strangulation law in England and Wales treats the offence less seriously than previously, not more seriously…
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Reason and the passions in Heloise and Abelard
In the lovers' letters, we see hormonal imperatives clashing with moral imperatives—and find ourselves realising that we should sometimes accord more…
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Collected facts about Stephen MacKenna
I am increasingly of the opinion that the Gaelic Revival had two peaks, producing two bodies of work that deserve immortality: the poetry of W. B…
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Nine interpretations of the Parmenides
An overview of the background assumptions different scholars make when writing about Plato's hardest dialogue.
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On looking into Kavanagh's Homer
A suggestion about the sources for Patrick Kavanagh's sonnet 'Epic'.
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