[…] when writing about homosexuality. He borrows a dated argument from Desmond Morris, the anthropologist, who in The Human Zoo states that humans like captured animals are no longer living in conditions natural to our […]
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If we had kissed, it would have been the miracle to make us human in each other’s eyes. Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game. Amulek asks us a rhetorical question, “Now, if a man murdereth, be […]
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