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Sam Harris | #338 - The Sin of Moral Equivalence
samharris.orgIn both English and Spanish America the price of imperial expansion had been de facto colonial autonomy.37 When Nathaniel Bacon, a wealthy Virginia planter, led a rebellion against the governor in 1676 (accusing him of being soft on the Pamunkey people) and burned down the colony’s capital at Jamestown, there was little or nothing that London could
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To paraphrase Francesca Albanese: "October 7 was an opportunity for the Israelis to complete their evil plans and projects, and Hamas isn't at fault for the massacres—antisemites or not, whatever—since they are 'dispossessed,' so the Jews had it coming."
The average age of the Hamas murderers who invaded Israel was abou... See more
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An excerpt from episode #367 of the Making Sense podcast. Listen to the full episode now wherever you get your podcasts. Transcript available on SamHarris.org.
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Listen to Sam Harris skillfully eviscerate the “both sides” argument in the Israel-Hamas war:
“The boundary between antisemitism and generic moral stupidity is a little hard to discern, and I’m not sure it’s always important to find it. I’m not sure it matters why a person can’t… Show more
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Isabella Hammad • The Parisian
Shortly before the Hammonds’ arrival the building’s East Portico had been the scene of an assassination attempt against President Andrew Jackson. The assailant was named Richard Lawrence, who believed himself to be England’s long-dead King Richard III and claimed that Jackson had interfered with the delivery of payments long owed to him by the colo
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