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You Can’t Lick the People: Individual and Collective Struggles in the Films of Frank Capra

A prince being thus obliged to know well how to act as a beast must imitate the fox and the lion, for the lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.
— Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527) The Prince, 1513

Bill Maher: ‘The Key to Beating COVID is Through Your Immune System’

EDITOR’S NOTE: This may be the first time ever that this publication has been in agreement with Bill Maher. Suffice to say, we live in hope. 
In his editorial “New Rule,” Real Time host Bill Maher argues that people should fight the coronavirus by strengthening their immune systems, rather than by sanitizing the universe.

Debating God, Relativism & Perspective Philosophy! Apologetics Class 3

Discord’s home for politics. The official politics discord for debate, history, philosophy, polls, & live events. One of the most active politics discord communities! The large politics discord hosted another AMA with myself and Fr Dcn. which led to a couple debates.  Here, we include two recent AMAs that developed into debates in various forms and fashions.  We discuss St. Maximos and the Logoi, relativism, TAG and more! In the other, a different type of chat / AMA with a gnostic-minded host and his politics server.

PRESCIENT: How Stephen King TV Series Eerily Mirrors COVID-19 Crisis

In 2003, an American TV science fiction drama series on USA Network called The Dead Zone aired an episode entitled “Plague” which features a plot line that’s not only eerily similar to the present day COVID-19 crisis – it’s near identical. The two stories share an incredible number of details, from the name of the virus, its unique attributes, its alleged origins, and even the medication being used to treat it.