bell hooks (she refused to capitalize her name because she wanted people to focus on her ideas, not her brand) was an American writer who spent her career building bridges between feminism, anti-racism, and class poli...
Continue reading“If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”— George Orwell, 1984
Continue readingEvery third world country has two exchange rates: the official one and the real one. The official rate is what the government tells you the currency is worth (a lie). The real rate is what you actually pay on the stre...
Continue readingHannah Arendt was a German Jewish political theorist who fled the Nazis, ended up in New York, and spent the rest of her life trying to understand how the Holocaust happened. Her conclusion was terrifying and nobody w...
Continue readingThe pressure to read more, to always be moving to the next book, the next article, the next piece of content, is a trap. It treats reading like a race. It treats the number of books on your “finished” list as a score....
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