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...believe in God? "I'm not an atheist. I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude...
Politics for too long has been considered a “niche problem.” Historically, politicians—individuals suffering from politics—have been concentrated in only a small segment of population: white, affluent, hetero-normative men. This perception has allowed the disease to grow to epidemic levels unnoticed as people pacify themselves under false pretenses. Across the nation, mothers calm themselves at night by thinking, “My children won’t start politics, we live in an impoverished minority area.” Many people don’t get tested...
...number of politicians in the world. The IOP, as described by Jason Zenerle of the New Republic, serves as “a sort of halfway house for recently defeated politicians trying to reenter decent society.” This strategy of using rehabilitation to solve the political problem stands in stark contrast to the two ineffective methods that are currently dominant: exile and incarceration...
...legislatures”—in a remote location where politicians couldn’t hurt society and would survive off government pensions supplemented by periodic begging for funds. However, despite these 13 leper-colony-like areas, America couldn’t successfully control its political problem, which led to the American Revolution...
...know the people who clean the floors while you do your problem sets,” said Provost, who is also a Crimson editor...