Y2K: 20/20 Hindsight 20 Years Later
By Seanna Watson Twenty years ago, we were on the cusp of a new millennium. (Yes, I know that there are pedants who assert that the actual start of this…
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The Tragedy of the Commons
By Sandra Dunham I have enjoyed the dramatic sound of this term since I first heard it studying undergraduate economics in the 1980s. Throughout the ensuing 30+ years, I have seen…
Buridan’s Ass, or How to be Rational by Being Arbitrary
A donkey comes to two bales of hay, equally far from him and equal in size, quality, etc. He does not know how to decide between the two bundles of…
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Sobriety, Addiction Treatment, and Secular Exclusion
by Christjahn Beck Hi, my name is Christjahn Beck and I’m an alcoholic. This very familiar greeting formula is the way that I introduced myself to rooms full of strangers…
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Gender Dysphoria: An introduction
By Diane Bruce Gender dysphoria, also known by the terms gender incongruence and transgenderism , is defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) in its International Classification of Disease as “a marked and persistent incongruence between…