Word: apocalypticism
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IT WAS DEADLY ENOUGH, but it could have been so much worse. If, for example, the tide had been high, instead of almost dead low. Or if the winds, which had been clocked at a near record 185 m.p.h. a few hours earlier, hadn't dropped to a howling but...
Science fiction? The apocalyptic vision of a doomsday cult? No, this disastrous scenario came last week from the sober pages of the journal Science. A team of U.S. and Chinese researchers studying the remains of volcanoes that began erupting 250 million years ago reported that according to radioactive dating, the...
The true meaning of the Declaration, he asserts, was distorted by another American scourge: slavery, which he considers the moral equivalent of abortion. "Slavery is not an academic point to anyone like me," he says. "And I will defend the unborn just as I would have fought against slavery." It...
Hughes' essay rests on the misguided liberal premise that the Federal Government equals America. The cover declares, WHY AMERICA SHOULDN'T KILL CULTURAL FUNDING." Inside, the story is titled, "Pulling the Fuse on Culture." It is curious that such an apocalyptic tone is generated in defense of agencies that did...
Apocalyptic grumblers in the north of the U.S. are sometimes heard to say that what the nation needs for its spiritual and environmental health is another Ice Age, a mile-thick, continent-wide ice sheet, heading south. In Florida they do not say this. Florida has hurricanes, and when satirist...