Reflections on books, the web, philosophy, and the quiet disciplines that hold a life together.
Simone 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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Present day, present time.
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The 2016 Turkish coup attempt is one of the most spectacular fuck-ups in modern coup history, and you need to study it because it shows exactly what happens when shit goes sideways.On July 15, 2016, a faction of the T...
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Antonio Gramsci was an Italian Marxist who was imprisoned by Mussolini in 1926. He spent the next 11 years in fascist prisons writing the most innovative Marxist theory of the 20th century on toilet paper and smuggled...
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Modern feminist discourse often frames patriarchy as a system sustained primarily by overt misogyny: domineering husbands, sexist institutions, abusive men, online incels, and explicit beliefs about female inferiority...
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