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Every time you try to picture what daily American life looked like sixty or seventy years ago, it’s easy to land on the rose-tinted version: backyard barbecues, drive-in movies, families piled into station wagons headed for the lake. What that picture tends to leave out is the part where the doctor lit a cigarette in...
Every year, millions of people stream past the gilded gates of Buckingham Palace, crane their necks at the famous balcony, and take roughly the same photograph. They see the same polished stone façade, the same guards in bearskin hats, the same crowds pressing against the railings. Almost none of them walk away knowing that the...
Most of us grow up absorbing the beliefs of our faith communities without ever questioning where those ideas came from. They’re in the air at Sunday school, woven into sermons, sung in hymns. If enough people repeat them with enough conviction, they start to feel ancient and authoritative, and eventually, they feel biblical. The trouble...
Look, you probably think of yourself as a reasonably normal person. You drink too much coffee, doomscroll before bed, get a little too invested in reality TV, and maybe cry at the occasional commercial. Perfectly fine. Totally rational. Nothing to see here. But if you had the misfortune of being alive in Victorian England or...
