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I see the Minnesota Star Tribune has run its periodic “national debt doesn’t matter” opinion piece on Sunday (“The national debt: You can stop worrying now,” Strib Voices, July 20). This one has the ...

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In his 1973 book The Denial of Death, the anthropologist Ernest Becker argued that, in order to function in the world, we repress our knowledge of our own mortality. Our “deepest need is to be free of ...