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Operative Words

Behind the campaign curtain

Snuffed Torch

Can the Olympic myth survive?

Lax Americana

What happens if Donald Trump returns to the White House?

Ronald de Sousa

Ronald de Sousa is a professor emeritus of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto.

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Ronald de Sousa

Two-Track Minds

How rational thinking keeps us from being enslaved by our genes. September 2004

Procreating Properly?

On the moral consequences of having kids December 2013
Until quite recently, few had the privilege of pondering whether to have children, or why. It was just one of those things that happen. For anyone now weighing the pros and cons, the reasons considered can be as agonizing as they are boringly banal for anyone else. Can I afford it? Do I owe it to my parents to “give” them a…