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So, you've died with all of humanity in a vast nuclear apocalypse. It was not the madness of your leaders that brought you here.
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A Coalition Government of the Heart
They say never wake a sleepwalker, but your liberal girlfriend is wide awake!
Imagine Dragons
September 05, 2017
Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire, I say, shut up, the lot of you.
The Complacent Intellectual Class
September 04, 2017
Judging by Tyler Cowen’s latest book, our nation continues to vegetate in the pretend-thinking of #AspenIdeas pseudo-academia.
Weekly Bafflements
September 01, 2017
“I’m Sick Of Busting My Ass Doing Neo-Nazi Stuff Only To Have Some Masked Antifa Dweebs Get Credit As The Real Fascists.”
A lot of very dumb and/or cynical people wrote about Antifa this week but the only piece worth your time is this one, from Clickhole.
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LittleSis is Watching the One Percent
Welcome to Interviews for Resistance. Since election night 2016, the streets of the United States have rung with resistance. People all over the country have woken up with the conviction that they must do something to fight inequality in all its forms. But many are wondering ...
The Dog Delusion
September 01, 2017
I just wonder if there’s something dangerous about championing a dependent, hierarchical relationship as an ideal realization of love or friendship.
Who’s Afraid of the Russian Soul?
To speak of the character or “soul” of an entire country—one that spans two continents—is to give up on understanding out of preference for feelings.
Whitewash
Like a recumbent sloth jolted into a panicked flight response, David Brooks has belatedly noticed the rancid politics of right-wing racial confrontation.
Camping Trip
Corey Pein talks with Andrea Pitzer about concentration camps.
Finger-Lickin’ Lulz
August 30, 2017
KFC’s creepy virtual-reality publicity stunt is but a hint of things to come in the exciting world of late capitalism’s cyberpunk dystopia.
The Pizzagate Polity
August 29, 2017
When Trump talks tough on sex trafficking, Pizzagate conspiracy theorists hear him singing their song.