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October 16, 2025 The Art of Middle Eastern Pillow Talk
Amir and I had very different ideas about which side had committed a ‘genocide.’ But it didn’t stop us from being civil. By David Christopher Kaufman.

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9 min
October 14, 2025 All at Sea
Greta Thunberg’s sailing trip to Gaza was a confused piece of activist theatre of a kind that is sadly very much in vogue.

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12 min
October 10, 2025 It’s No Longer 1937...
Disney’s awful new Snow White adaptation fails to recreate or even understand the story it is trying to tell.

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29 min
October 07, 2025 Why We Should Read Nietzsche
My sense is that Nietzsche is best understood as a radical individualist; one who insists passionately that our duty in life is to become what we are. But what kind of person is that?

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18 min
October 03, 2025 No, You Don’t Have a Disorder, You Have Feelings
When we construe normal feeling as illness, we offer people an understanding of themselves as disordered. This encourages people to be stuck in a limiting narrative.

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14 min
October 01, 2025 Why Not Polygamy? Examining the Case for Legalisation
Polygamy is a criminal offense throughout the Western world. Would making it legal be progress?

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35 min
September 29, 2025 George Orwell, Henry Miller, and the 'Dirty-Handkerchief Side of Life'
Like Miller, Orwell didn’t just focus on the “dirty-handkerchief side of life”—he repeatedly confessed to the dirty-handkerchief side of his own personality.

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24 min
September 24, 2025 How Accurate is Christopher Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’?
A nuclear engineer reviews the blockbuster film.

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14 min
September 17, 2025 Huxley, Burroughs, and the Church of Scientology
Like it or not, hidden within those influential texts are the bizarre jargon and lunatic assertions of a mendacious madman.

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21 min
September 15, 2025 Brainrot, Not Ideology
The assassination of Charlie Kirk shows how Discord, memes, and “online brainrot” may motivate disaffected youth like Tyler Robinson more than ideology.

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9 min