materialism
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In “Barn Raiser,” he mourns strict materialism as an empty exercise, challenging those “to whom nothing matters but matter.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
Koch's presentation examined the limits of materialism, the dominant scientific view that everything in existence can ultimately be explained through matter, energy, and physical laws.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 30, 2026
"It's been crowded like this for the last couple of states," he told those in attendance, urging listeners to avoid "chasing materialism" and to abandon thoughts of greed, anger and hatred.
From Barron's ● Feb. 3, 2026
“The idealism of the 1960s was yielding to the materialism of the 1980s, a new preoccupation with the navel-gazing, ego-stroking life,” Grynbaum writes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2025
Fiction provided a useful disguise for dangerous ideas such as the atheism and materialism of Cyrano.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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Theodore Roosevelt on "New Nationalism" (1910)
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Chapter 28: The Cold War Era
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