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"For all the promises Trump is breaking, there is one he has kept without wavering: his vow to be unpredictable. ... S…"

"For all practical purposes, wheat is civilization. It produces what we euphemistically call the staff of life, a staf…"

"… Hassan promotes the BITE model as a scientific method for identifying “destructive cults,” claiming it can distingu…"

"For we Americans, though we are the most restless race in the world, with the possible exception of the Bedouins, alm…"

"Chicago is stupefying. It knows no rules, and I know none by which to judge it. It stands apart from all the cities i…"

"Kansas used to believe in Populism and free silver. It now believes in hot summers and a hot hereafter."

"It was a Native Son who, when asked by an Englishman, visiting the United States for the first time, to name the Seve…"

"The Arkansawyers are of the type of the old Hoosiers, Crackers, Pikers, and the Big Smoky mountaineers. The Hoosiers …"

"Believing that your hypothesis must be correct before all the evidence is gathered encourages you to interpret the ev…"