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How A Christmas Carol invented modern time travel
Here s how the sci-fi trope fits into the holiday.
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Every year, right around the time of the winter solstice, families across the country gather around dinner tables or hearths or Zoom calls to celebrate the spirit of the holiday – which, depending on your interpretation, involves gifts, gratitude, feasts and… time travel.
Yeah. Time travel. The Doc Brown, Doctor Who, sci-fi thing. Bear with me a second, this is gonna be sort of weird but I promise it’s fun and even, I’m not kidding, makes perfect sense: A Christmas Carol invented both modern time travel and helped define modern Christmas, so it must therefore be concluded that time travel is as important a part of the holiday as gift giving, mistletoe, “Die Hard” and seeing relatives get drunker than is comfortable. But let’s back up.
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Executive clemency wasn’t meant to be controversial. The Constitutional power to “grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States” was intended for acts of compassion.
In the Federalist Papers (no. 74), Alexander Hamilton wrote that justice could seem too cruel, too brutal if it never made exceptions for the “unfortunate” guilty. An act of clemency, he said, might “restore the tranquility of the commonwealth.” And since groups of men too often encouraged each other to be stubborn and harsh, “one man appears to be a more eligible dispenser of the mercy of government than a body of men.”
How A Christmas Carol invented modern time travel
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Here s how the sci-fi trope fits into the holiday.
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Every year, right around the time of the winter solstice, families across the country gather around dinner tables or hearths or Zoom calls to celebrate the spirit of the holiday – which, depending on your interpretation, involves gifts, gratitude, feasts and… time travel.
Yeah. Time travel. The Doc Brown, Doctor Who, sci-fi thing. Bear with me a second, this is gonna be sort of weird but I promise it’s fun and even, I’m not kidding, makes perfect sense: A Christmas Carol invented both modern time travel and helped define modern Christmas, so it must therefore be concluded that time travel is as important a part of the holiday as gift giving, mistletoe, “Die Hard” and seeing relatives get drunker than is comfortable. But let’s back up.