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The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

by Gad Saad

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May 17, 2026 09:08AM

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Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind

by Gad Saad

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The Honor of God

by Grant Castleberry

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Book cover for Discover your inner economist : use incentives to fall in love, survive your next meeting, and motivate your dentist

Discover your inner economist : use incentives to fall in love, survive your next meeting, and motivate your dentist by Tyler Cowen

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No one in Beethoven’s audience, or in sixteenth-century Florence, had a Ph.D. or, for that matter, a master’s degree. Yet many of those people loved culture with a great intellect and a passion. Philosopher George Santayana remarked that ...more

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The Gospel According to Satan: Eight Lies about God that Sound Like the Truth

by Jared C. Wilson

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“What is wrong with a counterfeit is not what it is like, but how it was made. This points to a similar and fundamental aspect of the essential nature of bullshit: although it is produced without concern with the truth, it need not be false. The bullshitter is faking things. But this does not mean that he necessarily gets them wrong.”
― Harry G. Frankfurt, On Bullshit

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“We have guaranteed freedom, security, and peace for a larger share of humanity than has any other nation in all of history. There is no other like us. There never has been.”
― Dick Cheney, Exceptional: Why the World Needs a Powerful America

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