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 A Ballade of Suicide by G.K. Chesterton   The gallows in my garden, people say, Is new and neat and adequately tall; I tie the noose on in ...

 A common view about the relation between democratic governance and majorities is majoritarianism, which is that democratic governance occur...

 Marvin Lee Aday, better known as Meat Loaf (a nickname he got when he gained weight while playing high school football), died yesterday. On...

 Winter's Reign by James Alexander MacGowan The earth is dark and dreary, drenched with rain, The azure sky is hid by clouds of snow, Wh...

 * Various Articles at the SEP Margaret Schabas, Economics in Early Modern Philosophy Karolina Hubner, Spinoza's Epistemology and Philos...

 For there are blessed passions and common activities of both the soul and body, which do not attract the soul to the body, but rather raise...

 William D'Alessandro has a paper, Is It Bad to Prefer Attractive Partners? (PDF), in which he argues that it is often morally bad to p...