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The Art of Middle Eastern Pillow Talk Oct 16, 2025

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Amir and I had very different ideas about which side had committed a ‘genocide.’ But it didn’t stop us from being civil. By David Christopher Kaufman.

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All at Sea Oct 14, 2025

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Greta Thunberg’s sailing trip to Gaza was a confused piece of activist theatre of a kind that is sadly very much in vogue.

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It’s No Longer 1937... Oct 10, 2025

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Disney’s awful new Snow White adaptation fails to recreate or even understand the story it is trying to tell.

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Why We Should Read Nietzsche Oct 07, 2025

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My sense is that Nietzsche is best understood as a radical individualist; one who insists passionately that our duty in life is to become what we are. But what kind of person is that?

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No, You Don’t Have a Disorder, You Have Feelings Oct 03, 2025

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When we construe normal feeling as illness, we offer people an understanding of themselves as disordered. This encourages people to be stuck in a limiting narrative.

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Why Not Polygamy? Examining the Case for Legalisation Oct 01, 2025

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Polygamy is a criminal offense throughout the Western world. Would making it legal be progress?

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George Orwell, Henry Miller, and the 'Dirty-Handkerchief Side of Life' Sep 29, 2025

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Like Miller, Orwell didn’t just focus on the “dirty-handkerchief side of life”—he repeatedly confessed to the dirty-handkerchief side of his own personality.

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How Accurate is Christopher Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’? Sep 24, 2025

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A nuclear engineer reviews the blockbuster film.

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Huxley, Burroughs, and the Church of Scientology Sep 17, 2025

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Like it or not, hidden within those influential texts are the bizarre jargon and lunatic assertions of a mendacious madman.

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Brainrot, Not Ideology Sep 15, 2025

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The assassination of Charlie Kirk shows how Discord, memes, and “online brainrot” may motivate disaffected youth like Tyler Robinson more than ideology.

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