A 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 ...
Continue readingThe 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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