As you set out for Ithaka hope your road is a long one, full of adventure, full of discovery. Laistrygonians, Cyclops, angry Poseidon—don’t be afraid of them: you’ll never find things like that on your way as long as you keep your thoughts raised high, as long as a rare excitement stirs your spirit and …
While Theresa May was Home Secretary the Home office put out a statistic that claimed that 100,000 foreign students a year stayed on illegally after their visas expired. This “fact” was used by the Brexiteers in their campaign as proof of uncontrolled immigration. But new data from the Office of National Statistics says there were …
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From Moira Macdonald, Exeter, Devon, UK Daniel Cossins asks whether “we” should impose population controls (8 July, p 34). But it has been obvious since effective contraception and safe abortion became available that it is men worldwide who are at the controls. Evidence exists that, given affordable access to the means of regulating their fertility, …
A member of the Society of the Friends of Epicurus has the following to say about the Robert E. Lee monument that served as a lightning rod for recent Charlottesville violence: “To everyone who is claiming that the secession and Civil War wasn’t about slavery, the following speech was given by the VP of the …
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America’s civil asset forfeiture laws, another product of law enforcement’s failed war on drugs, were originally designed to deprive suspected drug dealers of the spoils of their illicit trade — houses, cars, boats. The law now regularly deprives people unconnected to the war on drugs of their property without due process of law and in …
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