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In Diversity, United

E pluribus unum, a phrase born of an early republic trying to hold together difference without crushing it, means quite plainly out of many, one, yet its force lies not in patriotism or unanimity but in the harder truth that a coherent whole does not precede its parts but arises only because distinct lives, voices, […]

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Moral Inversion

Nietzsche’s The Antichrist was not written to identify a villain in the conventional sense. It was an intervention aimed at disturbing complacency. His target was not a person, but a reversal: a situation in which values publicly affirmed as moral, spiritual, or redemptive had become detached from the practices and dispositions they purported to sanctify. […]