Last week, Edvard Munch's 1895 pastel version of The Scream went under the gavel at Sotheby’s to set a new record as the most expensive piece of art ever sold at auction. One of our culture’s most recognizable and reproduced images, it rivals even the Mona Lisa for the irreverent… [more]
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Mike Daisey, This American Life and the truest story ever told
My dogs know most things through their noses. You might say that smelling is their epistemology. Their sense of smell has always been keener than their eyesight or hearing and is even more so now that those senses are diminishing with age. The human race is a little less constant,… [more]
Should Ayn Rand be off-limits to Christians?
The atheist philosopher and novelist Ayn Rand published more than a dozen books before she died in 1982. Now, liberal Christians say another work belongs in Rand's controversial canon: the 2012 Republican budget. House Republicans passed their budget along party lines in April, saying its drastic cuts to federal programs… [more]
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