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Fear

The Jitters

Fear is an old emotion, laid down deep in the nervous system. Without its promptings no species of animal life could have survived and civilization could not have developed. Certainly…

Fear Factors

From the 2018 Chapman University Survey of American Fears. The list is included in Fear Itself, by Christopher D. Bader, Joseph O. Baker, L. Edward Day, and Ann Gordon, published this…

Naked and Afraid

by Martha Nussbaum,

By Martha Nussbaum, from The Monarchy of Fear, which was published last month by Simon and Schuster. Nussbaum is a professor of law and philosophy at the University of Chicago…

Killing the Competition

by Barry C. Lynn,

How the new monopolies are destroying open markets

The woman who felt no fear

by Justin S. Feinstein,

Smell is other people

by Tina DiCarlo,

11. The National Character

by Earl Shorris,

From the Forum “Undoing Bush” The undoing of the American character has a long history. It took more than half a century from a summer’s day in August, when the…