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- Quillette Editors’ Choice of 2024 December 21, 2024Jamie, Jon, Iona, and Claire share their favourite essays from this year.Quillette
- Podcast #264: A Theory of Everyone December 21, 2024Iona Italia talks to cultural evolutionary theorist Michael Muthukrishna, author of ‘A Theory of Everyone,’ about the human dual inheritance—part inherited, part taught—and about how energy availability underpins everything.Quillette
- From Skies to Screens December 20, 2024Our experience of the world is increasingly mediated by digital technology. This is stripping us of our sense that the physical landscape is infused with meaning.Robert Huddleston
- Quillette Editors’ Choice of 2024 December 21, 2024
- Jay Nordlinger
- Roads of Poetry December 20, 2024Reader mail about poems, memorized.Jay Nordlinger
- Poems by Heart, Cont. December 20, 2024Writers tell of poems they have memorized, would like to memorize, etc.Jay Nordlinger
- A Man of Parts December 19, 2024WFB was big, devouring life, and brightening it.Jay Nordlinger
- Roads of Poetry December 20, 2024
Tag Archives: politics
Chilling Effects
CNN is reporting that “current and former FBI officials tell CNN they’re concerned that the harsh rhetoric coming from Trump and Barr has only worsened the bureau’s already tenuous standing with the President, leaving them wondering whether federal agents could … Continue reading
Seriously?
Rivals for the 2020 Democratic Presidential nomination Senator Elizabeth Warren (D. MA) and “Mayor Pete” Buttigieg (D. South Bend IN), have taken to firing at each other over the issue of transparency. Each is busy pretending that other has failed … Continue reading
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Art and Culture
Politics is downstream from culture in that politics is shaped by culture. Famous writers like George Orwell (1984), Arthur Koestler (Darkness at Noon) and Mario Vargas Llosa (The War of the End of the World) have ruminated on this and … Continue reading