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   What does "Make America great again" mean? What does it mean to put America first? Great in what way? First at what?

  Great at bullying smaller and weaker nations to get her own way, or great at setting an example of democracy and working toward global co-operation and reconciliation?

   First to get what she thinks she deserves, and to take as much as she can for herself; or first to ensure that everyone - not just every one person, but every one nation as well - is treated fairly and has enough to live?

If you don't believe that scientism has replaced the foundations of open-minded inquiry that used to be science, Bring me any biology or physics textbook, and I'll show you how it is being done, somewhere in the first few pages.

For example, a text titled simply 'Biology' (Sylvia S. Mader, 1987) contains this astounding paragraph on scientific method on page 11:

Book review: The Reason You Walk by Wab Kinew (Penguin Group, 2015) (5/5 stars)

In a galaxy far, far away and 500 years ago, the people of Turtle Planet were going about their business, when suddenly a fleet of spaceships landed. They were escaping an evil intergalactic empire in search of a new planet. Their ships were loaded with skyscrapers and automobiles and people, and rolls of instant roadway film, and drugs and infrastructure and ATVs, and statues and churches and Pepsi and everything else.

   Presidential hopeful Donald Trump revealed yesterday morning, via 'X' (the platform formerly known as Twitter)  that he has a plan to deal with the issue of illegal immigrants and refugees entering the U.S. across its southern border. He laid out the details in a series of tweets.
   The plan seemingly involves allowing private citizens to 'sponsor' illegal immigrants, who would otherwise be deported to their countries of origin in South and Central America at the expense of the United States, according to a spokesperson in Trump's campaign office.

   Imagine that you're almost seventy years old. Throughout those years you've lived what would be considered a normal, happy life, having grown strong family ties, and having built close community relationships.
   One day, in an instant, your world is turned upside down and inside out, when you find out that your entire life has been based on a mistake.