Herbert Marcuse was a German American philosopher and a Frankfurt School bad boy. He wrote One-Dimensional Man (1964) and predicted almost everything about modern consumer society. The 1960s students who read it calle...
Continue readingA well-constructed argument begins with a thesis, builds evidence, and arrives at a conclusion. That is the standard model. That is what we are trained to do. That is what this post is not going to do.Instead, this po...
Continue readingA. After midnight, every thought feels like a revelation and every revelation feels suspect by morning.B. Before I learned to write I learned to delete, and deleting taught me more about sentences than any teacher eve...
Continue readingSimone de Beauvoir was a French existentialist who asked a simple question in 1949: “What is a woman?” Her answer got her banned by the Vatican. The Catholic Church does not ban books it disagrees with. It bans books ...
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