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It's the season of speeches. Every four years, Americans are treated to oratory by speakers of both parties who address their national party conventions. The purpose of such oratory is less to ...

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It has been a while since I talked about archetypes, but I was thinking about them lately because of a science-fiction novel I was reading, which was filled with them. Basically, an archetype is a ...