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What Comes Next for Iran?
The coming presidential election will cement theocratic control and perpetuate the Islamic Republic's empire-by-proxy.
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Alan Flanagan
Freedom of Speech and the Skokie Legacy
Defending the principle vs. the practice of free speech.
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Alan Flanagan
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From the Safe Space to the Sea
Anti-Semitism with Progressive Characteristics
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Alan Flanagan
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Tying the Gordian Knot: the Historical Entangling of Israel and Palestine
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Meaning, Purpose, and Arriving at Your Own Door
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Asymmetry and the Dilemma of Self-Determination
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Anti-Semitism and the Anti-Imperialism of Fools
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The Starbucks Effect
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Opinion Absolutism and Impoverished Perspectives
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The Nature of Evidence, Standards of Proof, and Certainty
The challenge of producing actionable evidence is not absolution of the need for evidence-based practice.
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Alan Flanagan
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Falsification, the Cass Review, and the Postmodernisation of Science
A lesson in subverting scientific integrity to social causes.
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Alan Flanagan
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So, Israel is No Longer a Liberal Democracy?
What that does, and doesn't, mean.
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Alan Flanagan
Historical Rigour and Future Prescience
History provides the opportunity to shine some insightful light on the road ahead.
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Alan Flanagan
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Mahsa Amini, Islamism, and the Moral Incoherence of the Western Left
Western Left/Progressives never fail to convey the lack of substance behind their manufactured beliefs.
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Alan Flanagan
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Law, Science, and the Loss of Shared Reality
A shared reality requires a shared sense-making framework.
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Alan Flanagan
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Magician Argues for the Existence of Magic
Argentina's new president, Javier Milei, hopes to conjure forth the omnipotent Market.
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Alan Flanagan
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Moral Combat, Messianism, and the No-State Solution
Part 4 of attempting to make sense of the Israel-Palestine conflict.
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Alan Flanagan
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2023, We Hardly Knew Ye
The most popular 3am Thoughts essays of the past year.
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