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Siddharth Mehrotra
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May 24, 2022

AITA for getting ghosted by childhood chum?

The popular subreddit, “Am I the Asshole?” is, as its moderators say, “a catharsis for the frustrated moral philosopher in all of us, and a place to finally find out if you were wrong in an argument that’s been bothering you.” Unfortunately, the mods strictly ban any posts about trouble…

Social Justice

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Social Justice

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Dec 31, 2021

Benefit of the Doubt: friendships’ stitch in time.

I recently read a piece called The Straight Girl’s Secret (https://thenib.com/i-was-the-straight-girls-secret/), in which an affair of the heart comes to an end, and with it the friendship from which it originally grew, because one of the girls boasted, to admiring gossips, she had only been toying with the affections of…

Friendship

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Friendship

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Oct 26, 2021

Tolkien, the first Christian dinosaur mythologist?

To begin with, a dinosaur mythologist is any author or illustrator who writes, paints, sculpts, etc. about dinosaurs, and in so doing, gives its readers and viewers a stronger impression and greater idea of their existence and grandeur. Strictly speaking, the first Christian dinosaur mythologist is Arthur Conan Doyle, author…

Tolkien

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Tolkien

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Jun 30, 2021

The shocks of early human history

The shocks of early human history, as discussed by the leads of my novella Philosophy & College Life: The students went, not quite extracurricularly, to an exhibit of extinct megafauna; — mammoths, giant ground sloths, saber-tooth cats, American camels, six-tusked elephants, giant bison, woolly rhinoceri, gigantopithecines, great auks, aurochs, aullays…

Paleontology

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Paleontology

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May 31, 2021

Last Straws: irrational response to international disasters in the early 21st Century.

It may seem inexplicable, even incredible to many, that the multitude of American citizens, and an even larger majority in the U.S. …

Covid 19

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Covid 19

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Apr 5, 2021

Hear me out: why Whedon & Snyder’s Justice League isn’t a bad movie

Let the present author preface this review, with the remark that I have no shrift whatever for inconsistent critics who demand ‘complex motivations’ and ‘subtle, realistic bad guys’ in fiction, yet are content with simplistic explanations in fact. …

Superheroes

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Superheroes

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Mar 12, 2021

Fair Maids & Faithful Knights: a survey of gender-dynamics in Malory’s “Knight of the Kitchen” and Wolfram’s ‘Parzival’.

The legends of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table, are among the most recognizable of Occidental myths. The very names of Arthur and his Knights, are names to conjure the very type and symbol of heroism and honor, and the last, tragic defence of a forgotten ideal…

Mythology

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Fair Maids & Faithful Knights: 
a survey of gender-dynamics in Malory’s “Knight of the Kitchen”…
Fair Maids & Faithful Knights: 
a survey of gender-dynamics in Malory’s “Knight of the Kitchen”…
Mythology

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Feb 24, 2021

Credibility v. Incredulity: the case forever dismissed, and yet never closed

In Dias’ article in the Feb. 2021 edition of Mother Jones magazine (https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/02/the-almost-unbelievable-tortures-of-steven-tendo/), we find the biography of one Steven Tendo; — a sort of male Anastasia; — portrayed as the index-case of an immensely corrupt and unforgiving system of rules governing the admission of refugees. As portrayed by Dias…

Justice

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Justice

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Feb 2, 2021

(Re-)Inventing the Wheel: how to think about any death but our own.

Death, we might say, lies heaviest on the living. The dead, as Socrates wisely observes (Apologia), are either wholly unconscious, or sufficiently happy not to regret their deaths; and so, it is the living who must suffer perhaps the greatest sorrow of all, and the chief and source and type…

Philosophy

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(Re-)Inventing the Wheel: how to think about any death but our own.
(Re-)Inventing the Wheel: how to think about any death but our own.
Philosophy

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Dec 21, 2020

Christmas Specialties: comments on the origins of the modern world’s most universal holiday.

It is a phrase much despised by historians, and yet quite nearly true, “The origins of this are lost in the mists of Time”; in this case, of Christmas. As everyone knows, this holiday’s name, at least, commemorates the birthday of a legendary prophet or demi-god, whose followers, many times…

Christmas

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Christmas

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