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“Afghanistan Meant Nothing”

That’s the conclusion of Laura Jedeed, a freelance journalist who deployed to Afghanistan twice — once in 2008, and again in 2009-2010. I remember Afghanistan as a dusty beige nightmare of a place full...

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Mass Murder Movement

Author Tim Wise explains why COVID anti-vaxxers aren’t a MAGA death cult… it’s a mass murder movement. When you would tell them repeatedly that wearing a mask was less for the wearer than for others,...

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“Faith-based cruelty”

“the collapse of Kabul sends a clear message: liberal values lack the dramatic emotional appeal of faith-based cruelty. Liberalism is weak tea when up against men with rifles who operate on divine...

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National Insurrection Day

In all the millions of words written or spoken about the January 6 Insurrection, I don’t recall anyone describing what would have happened had the mob — and Trump — been successful. So I asked my...

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Termination Shock

Set in the near-ish future, Neal Stephenson’s latest novel (Termination Shock) charts a world gone haywire with the aftereffects of human-driven climate calamity. Like the last couple of novels I’ve...

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It is the Tao

“He, like everyone else, […] is exactly where, exactly what, exactly when he is meant to be. It is the Tao.” I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve read William Gibson’s All Tomorrow’s Parties but that...

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Knowledge

“Knowledge will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no knowledge.” “Knowledge is inherently precious even if you can’t sell it,” Greta said. “Even if you...

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Men in masses, and of causes

“I have had such a sickening of men in masses, and of causes, that I would not cross this room to reform parliament or prevent the union or to bring about the millennium. […] And I have nothing to do...

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The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

(Wikipedia) “The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows is a website and YouTube channel, created by John Koenig, that coins and defines neologisms for emotions that do not have a descriptive term. The...

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“The country had cracked”

“It had never occurred to the lords of the consumer society that consumerism as a political philosophy might one day manifest the grave systemic instabilities that Communism had. But as those...

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