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Slavery and Steam

The dangers of forfeiting societal sustainability.

David Foster

21 Jul 2022 · 6 min read

A World of Waste, Stripped of Transcendence: James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’ at 100

Few novels become institutions, to have departments rigged up around them, whole constituencies and spheres of scholarship, as works of lifelong study, fascination and confusion. Ulysses [https://www.amazon.com/Ulysses-Modern-Library-Best-Novels/dp/0679600116/ref=sr_1_4?crid=NG7V10N9NCDB&keywords=ulysses&qid=1643218547&sprefix=ulysses%2Caps%2C75&sr=8-4] , whose

Jared Marcel Pollen

31 Jan 2022 · 13 min read

NARRATED: Age of Amnesia

Quillette

30 Aug 2019 ·

Women Needed a Magazine that Doesn't Lie to Them. So I Started One

Women’s publications have tried to convince women they can be just like men, instead of celebrating femininity and what makes women wonderfully unique.

Brittany Martinez

20 Feb 2019 · 6 min read

Postmodern Philosophy is a Debating Strategy

The Foucauldian method, invoking a hermeneutic of suspicion, works by unveiling or demystifying the relations of power that constitute claims to truth.

Galen Watts

17 Feb 2019 · 6 min read

The Demise of Gawker: An Interview with Ryan Holiday

A lot of the media disdain that’s been kicked up and put in motion was then used for the election of a way bigger bully than Gawker ever was.

Stephen Elliott

13 Dec 2018 · 15 min read

Romanticizing the Hunter-Gatherer

It is important to note that this does not take into account the difficulty or danger involved in the types of tasks undertaken by hunter-gatherers.

William Buckner

16 Dec 2017 · 13 min read

What Ancient Cultures Teach us About Grief, Mourning and Continuity of Life

The mourning traditions of earlier cultures prescribed precise patterns of behavior that facilitated the public expression of grief and provided support for the bereaved.

Daniel Wojcik and Robert Dobler

11 Dec 2017 · 5 min read

Populism and Nostalgia's False Promise

Fear of individual and cultural extinction is both a cause and a product of the nostalgia so widespread in both Europe and America today.

Henry George

13 Nov 2017 · 10 min read

The Paradox of Female Happiness

The decline in female subjective wellbeing was found to cut across both class and race and held true for women of all ages, with children and without.

Claire Lehmann

2 Nov 2015 · 4 min read