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Beginning in Gladness, Ending in Madness

1900–1950 was a golden age of literary eccentricity.

Stephen Akey

21 Feb 2024 · 14 min read

Wallace Stevens, Simone de Beauvoir, Vladmir Nabokov.

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Buckley’s Blind Spots

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Buckley’s Blind Spots

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Erik Satie as a middle-aged man, with a beard and moustache, balding hair and small round glasses.

Hell in North Germany

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Women in coats and striped prisoner bonnets talk to a doctor in Soviet garb.

Why the Islamic Republic Must Fall

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A man stands with his back to the camera, draped in the pre-revolutionary Iranian flag.

Podcast #292: Social Work Without Stereotypes

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Dr Nafees Alam is a smiley brown man with a thick beard and eyebrows, a cool haircut and diamond studs in his ear

Purity, Profit, and Politics

Steve Salerno 6 Jul 2025 · 22 min read

CBS Evening News staff: four men, one woman. The men wear suits and ties. Black and white image.