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Requiem: The Soldier by Humbert Wolfe Down some cold field in a world outspoken the young men are walking together, slim and tall, and thoug...

Nonsense from Brandon Robshaw ( ht ): Many, including most Muslims, would argue that burqas are not religious symbols but products of cultu...

* It's John Calvin's 500th birthday today. Joyeux anniversaire, Jean Cauvin ! * Mark Pallen discusses a common myth about Darwin . *...

We are now arrived at the happy aera of experimental philosophy; when men, having got into the right path, prosecuted useful knowledge; when...

Kant famously said that 'sapere aude', dare to be wise, was the motto of enlightenment. The saying is taken from Horace (Epistles, B...

From the Inferno, Canto XI : "Once more go back a little to the point," I said, "where you state usury offends ...

It's usually thought that the traditional notion of usury was that of lending out money at interest. This is not incorrect if it's u...