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Are Humans Good or Evil?, by Clancy Martin, Alan Strudler
Oct 9, 2014 · Philosophers Clancy Martin and Alan Strudler debate whether humans are, as Martin argues, inherently good. “Clancy Martin sees people as ‘mostly good,’” Strudler counters. “His most persuasive reason seems quantitative: people much more often act rightly than wrongly…The idea that people are good because they do mostly good things ...
The Twenty-Three Best Train Songs Ever Written—Maybe
Jun 26, 2014 · 6. “The Midnight Special.” An old, old folk song, the words first written down by Howard Odum in 1905, and first recorded in the 1920s. My favorite version is Leadbelly’s rendition, but Creedence is also great, and then there’s Belafonte’s 1962 cover, which starts with a hard-driving Dylan harmonica riff to start — supposedly the first …
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There’s the Rub, by Brian Blanchfield - Harper's Magazine
By Brian Blanchfield, from Proxies, an essay collection that will be published in April by Nightboat Books. Blanchfield is the author, most recently, of A Several World, a volume of poetry.. I can’t bring myself to rhyme it with “cottage,” but I’ve heard it pronounced that way. The French pronunciation makes it sound like a delectation, a frill or a whip, a froth.
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Everyday Use, by Alice Walker - Harper's Magazine
by Alice Walker. I will wait for her in the yard that Maggie and I made so clean and wavy yesterday afternoon. A yard like this is more comfortable than most people know. It is not just a yard. It is like an extended living room. When the hard clay is swept clean as a floor and the fine sand around the edges lined with tiny, irregular grooves ...
Black men and public space, by Brent A. Staples - Harper's Magazine
Black men and public space, by Brent A. Staples. Get Access to Print and Digital for $23.99 per year. Subscribe for Full Access. Masthead. About. Archive.