In Praise of Elegance
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Elegance matters, not only because it makes the world more aesthetically pleasing, but because it reminds us in these times when obscenely powerful elites are trying... Read more.
Generational Dialogue in the Age of Machines
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The acting of becoming a mindful and hopefully ethical being has, for millennia, centered on a very simple dialogical process: one in which the child learns to view... Read more.
Academics Reveal That Water Is Transparent
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When reading In Covid's Wake, it becomes immediately clear that its authors, Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee, have very little curiosity, never mind understanding,... Read more.
Chorus of the Poodles
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Like Augusto Pérez, the European “leaders” were angry to discover that they were essentially fictitious figures who act daily at the mercy of their puppet masters... Read more.
Napoleon: Then and Now
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Like Napoleon’s troops, the legions of cognitive warriors from the myriad government-financed, non-governmental organizations are sure they have arrived at the... Read more.
The Demoralizing Downward Spiral of Algorithmic Culture
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Caught in the “measure-grab-and-control” tyranny of the algorithmic mind, they cannot imagine how those they see as lesser than them, might, if left to their... Read more.
To Survive Family Dinners
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Everyone knows that the multi-generational family table has, for centuries, been the prime site of socialization for society’s young. It is where they have learned... Read more.
The Limits of Transactionalism
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When was the last time you talked with a young person about what it means to live a good life as it is conceived of outside the parameters of economic gain or the... Read more.
The Banalization of Education
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Working within the classic canons of liberal reformism, we can surely institute changes that will slightly improve the educational experience of students. But it... Read more.
The White Woman’s Burden
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Those assuming the White Woman’s Burden believe that there is a moral elect embedded in almost every population whose job it is to liberate the majority from their... Read more.
Evil in a Box
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That the contrast between good and evil might be clear-cut in a given moment of history, I do not dispute. The problem comes when we put that particular and necessarily... Read more.
Technocrats and Authoritarianism
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As the ideal of representative democracy moved to the center of European and American life, those slated to lose power began touting a modern wisdom that would spare... Read more.