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Dec 9, 2025
In November 1980, The New Yorker put out one of the longest and strangest essays it ever published. “Within the Context of No Context” took up practically...
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Nov 11, 2025
This year, the U.S. Justice Department quietly added a new category to the list of enemies in its war on terrorism: “Nihilistic Violent Extremism”. The perpetrators of...
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Oct 30, 2025
It’s no surprise that we’re defined by the stories we tell ourselves. Or to put it differently, the limits of our language are also the limits of our world.1 Yet,...
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Oct 8, 2025
When I was in 1st grade, there was a sentence written on the classroom wall: “Shoot for the moon, even if you miss you’ll land among the stars.” For the longest...