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What Are the Odds? The Fine-Tuned Universe and the Improbability of You
The forces of the universe are balanced so precisely that a small nudge would erase all life, and the same staggering improbability runs straight through to the people who matter most. On cosmic fine-tuning, and the wonder of exist
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Can Rhetoric Make You Free?
Since Plato, rhetoric has been suspected of being the enemy of freedom: the art of flattery, the tool of tyrants. Victor Ferry argues the opposite, that the five classical canons are five disciplines of self-possession. We take his case seriously, and then test it.
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