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Monthly Archives: January 2024
Hobbes v Locke
The two philosophers I think about the most these days are Thomas Hobbes and John Locke. Hobbes argues for the absolute regime and Locke for the liberal state. Overall, my worldview is more aligned with Hobbes. In the state of … Continue reading
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The Women of the Far Right (Swimsuit Edition) (1-28-24)
01:00 Three U.S. soldiers killed in Jordan20:40 How Europe’s growing far-right populism will affect Ukraine and the war | Ivan Rogers25:00 Could Israel Cost Biden the Election?, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3n7F88DQHlQ47:00 The Women of the Far Right: Social Media Influencers and Online Radicalization, … Continue reading
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Larry McMurtry’s Struggle Against Anti-Gentile Prejudice
Here’s an excerpt from the new biography, Larry McMurtry: A Life by Tracy Daugherty: She [McMurtry’s literary agent Dorothea Oppenheimer] gave [Editor Michael Korda] an earful about how East Coast reviewers just didn’t get McMurtry though to be fair he … Continue reading
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Irony and Outrage: The Polarized Landscape of Rage, Fear, and Laughter in the United States
Political scientist Dannagal Goldthwaite Young writes in this 2019 book: * In their 2014 book The Outrage Industry, Jeffrey Berry and Sarah Sobieraj chronicle the growth of a new genre of political programming through the 2000s; programming that places a … Continue reading
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The Women of the Far Right: Social Media Influencers and Online Radicalization
Here are some highlights from this 2023 book by sociologist Eviane Leidig: * In May 2019, then twenty-three-year-old Canadian Lauren Southern posted on her website, laurensouthern.net, a farewell message titled “A New Chapter.” In it, Lauren 1 stated that over … Continue reading
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