April 2022
The first-amendment bubble of big US online media platforms quickly burst…
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When free-market elephants like Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos take charge of major mass-media outlets, concerns are raised about the direction of free speech...
Read MorePut it in the books!
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The outfielders adept at prose. At third base and first, essayists. At shortstop and second base, poets...
Read MoreNo Stone Unturned by Farah Abdessamad
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The ecstasy that accompanies a spiritual experience holds a form of inner displacement; we are born to surpass, to embrace our totality in movement...
Read MorePaul Vacca: How to be an Incipit?
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Unleashed on social networks, the first sentence becomes a sign of recognition, a knowing wink, a cabalistic sign between insiders...
Read MoreDouglas Penick: Eros
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The funeral procession of Love followed by poets is heading towards the temple of Diana...
Read MoreStuart Elden: Foucault on Antiquity
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Foucault was long concerned with traditional philosophical questions which, in the final years of his life, he explored through classical texts...
Read MoreDavid Beer on Justin E.H. Smith
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Where the emphasis is upon acceleration and instantaneity, longer term thinking is itself a form of resistance...
Read MoreModern Mexico’s Female Filmmakers
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Propelled by drug wars and battles between cartels for new territory since the 1980s, how can art or culture reflect such a terrifying threat?
Read MoreA Movie to Remember
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The Titanic fascinates filmmakers because it has everything a dramatist could ever want: heroism, sacrifice, decency...
Read MoreLe Pen Fighter II
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On the face of it, the results of Sunday’s first-round French presidential election look like a carbon copy of those in 2017...
Read MoreWinter Warriors
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Unable to deter the Soviets, France and Britain finally raised a military relief force, too small and too late to impact the outcome...
Read MoreRadical Elites
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One study found that 78% of June Black Lives Matter protesters in New York City were white...
Read MoreOnce More Unto
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Shakespeare’s Henry has Richard II’s understanding of symbolic power without being trapped in its mirrors...
Read MoreSwallowed Dolphins
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Are the dolphins somehow a metaphor for our condition as humans, believing that we are free so long as we remain oblivious to the restrictions within which we operate?
Read MoreThe tea should be strong. For a pot holding a quart, if you are going to fill it nearly to the brim, six heaped teaspoons would be about right...
Read MoreThe thing about new blooms is that they tend to bleed— / Those petals birthed / hugging close / that come warmer weather are tricked into jumping away...
Read MoreI spent a good part of my childhood at home staring outside my bedroom window, following the trail of planes approaching the nearby Paris airport in the sky from my banlieue. I envied the passengers...
Read MoreThe tea should be strong. For a pot holding a quart, if you are going to fill it nearly to the brim, six heaped teaspoons would be about right...
Read MoreThe thing about new blooms is that they tend to bleed— / Those petals birthed / hugging close / that come warmer weather are tricked into jumping away...
Read MoreI spent a good part of my childhood at home staring outside my bedroom window, following the trail of planes approaching the nearby Paris airport in the sky from my banlieue. I envied the passengers...
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