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November 2024

After Hyperpolitics
Or: the political is the personal
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Why is gratitude so challenging?
Two quick lessons from Heidegger and Joyce
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Four thought experiments on the limits of "liberation"
Imagine two people on a third date who decide to have sex for the first time.
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The Messy Human Middle
Transformation as somewhere between revolution and submission, and how I came to see this
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Liberalism after Despair
Or: righteous anger as a worthless currency
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The Center Must Hold
Democracy is the least-worst product of our fallen imaginations
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My Revolutionary Exodus
The most tepid endorsement of Kamala Harris, borne of a confrontation with my own motivations and limitations
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October 2024

The horror of success and serenity
The Cremator (1969) depicts a moral nightmare that just won't leave me alone
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It's Crime AND Punishment, not Crime THEN Punishment
Dostoevsky thinks you need God - I think you just need other human beings
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Righteous Misery is the Devil
Not awareness of the devil but the devil itself
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The Substance, like so many things, is about Death
It's about gender, consumerism, fame, yes - but human finitude most of all
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