Reflections on books, the web, philosophy, and the quiet disciplines that hold a life together.
The take: “Colonialism brought civilization, infrastructure, and Christianity to Africa. Africa would be nothing without it.”Who said it: Cecil Rhodes, various European historians, and the occasional modern politician...
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Angela Davis was on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list in 1970. She was acquitted of all charges. She became a professor. She wrote books that changed how America thinks about prisons. She is still alive, still fighting, ...
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Every word costs something. Time. Attention. Space. This post has exactly one hundred words. A hundred words is a paragraph. A hundred words is a breath. A hundred words is enough to say one thing if you know what tha...
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Albums Wicked Man's Reprise Sideshow 2021 · experimental I can honestly say I have been sleeping on Sideshow. I heard his name somewhere before but didn't actually listen to his songs or what he had ...
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I have been sleeping early these days not early but usually before or at 1:00 AM and now I am half asleep and all I can recall is gunshot, one call, chitchat from the ethiopian drill songs I consumed earlier and even ...
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