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Oct 27, 2025
Last week’s post on gay frogs and cosmic horror was the first of what will be several follow-ups to my modestly viral August thread on X arguing that the...
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Oct 15, 2025
Visions of Heaven and Hell is a three-part 1994 BBC documentary exploring the prospects and terrors of the hi-tech future that was looming on the horizon in the early years of...
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Oct 6, 2025
During the final month of the 2024 campaign, in an apparent last-ditch effort to appeal to young men who were defecting from the Democratic Party, PACs backing Kamala...
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Aug 12, 2025
In February of 1972, Michel Foucault sat down with a group of young Maoist militants to discuss the subject of “popular justice.” The occasion for the dialogue was an...
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Aug 4, 2025
The term “tech right” seems to have been coined by Richard Hanania in a 2023 Substack post that heralded the rightward turn of various Silicon Valley...
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Jul 21, 2025
In early 2022, I wrote for a now-defunct publication about the absence from television and film of representations of the daily reality of the pandemic, especially in blue...
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Jun 16, 2025
Around 2012-13, one of the many tech hype cycles that have punctuated the past few decades reached its crescendo. I’m referring to the craze for Massive Online Open Courses...
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Jun 2, 2025
Richard Barbrook is a British media scholar best known for co-authoring “The Californian Ideology,” a seminal and highly prescient 1995 study of what they described as...
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Apr 16, 2025
In a controversial 1986 essay, “Third-World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capitalism,” the late literary critic Frederic Jameson argued that while the literature...
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Mar 10, 2025
I’m going to go out on a limb here and say I think some of the Trump/Musk hatchet blows to government spending seem bad. Take the slashing of the IRS workforce. In a sane...
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Mar 3, 2025
This week, the conservative activist Christopher Rufo published chat logs from an internal employee messaging service at the National Security Agency. “These logs,” he...
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Feb 24, 2025
A week ago, conservative influencer and children’s book author Ashley St. Clair sent shockwaves across X by announcing that she was the proud mother of a five-month old baby...
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Jan 20, 2025
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic 1835 story “Young Goodman Brown,” set in the New England of two centuries prior, tells the story of a young Puritan’s loss of...
Oct 27, 2025Last week’s post on gay frogs and cosmic horror was the first of what will be several follow-ups to my modestly viral August thread on X arguing that the...
Oct 15, 2025Visions of Heaven and Hell is a three-part 1994 BBC documentary exploring the prospects and terrors of the hi-tech future that was looming on the horizon in the early years of...
Oct 6, 2025During the final month of the 2024 campaign, in an apparent last-ditch effort to appeal to young men who were defecting from the Democratic Party, PACs backing Kamala...
Aug 4, 2025The term “tech right” seems to have been coined by Richard Hanania in a 2023 Substack post that heralded the rightward turn of various Silicon Valley...
Jul 21, 2025In early 2022, I wrote for a now-defunct publication about the absence from television and film of representations of the daily reality of the pandemic, especially in blue...
Jun 16, 2025Around 2012-13, one of the many tech hype cycles that have punctuated the past few decades reached its crescendo. I’m referring to the craze for Massive Online Open Courses...
Jun 2, 2025Richard Barbrook is a British media scholar best known for co-authoring “The Californian Ideology,” a seminal and highly prescient 1995 study of what they described as...
Apr 16, 2025In a controversial 1986 essay, “Third-World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capitalism,” the late literary critic Frederic Jameson argued that while the literature...
Mar 3, 2025This week, the conservative activist Christopher Rufo published chat logs from an internal employee messaging service at the National Security Agency. “These logs,” he...
Feb 24, 2025A week ago, conservative influencer and children’s book author Ashley St. Clair sent shockwaves across X by announcing that she was the proud mother of a five-month old baby...
Jan 20, 2025Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic 1835 story “Young Goodman Brown,” set in the New England of two centuries prior, tells the story of a young Puritan’s loss of...