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Freud thought that jokes allows people to utter things that would otherwise be stuck and repressed. Like dreams, he believed they satisfy our…
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Life imitates dreck. No one today, not even the stubbornest of aesthetes (if there are even a few of them left, hiding out in a gazebo somewhere in…
May 9 • 
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A recent piece in The Hollywood Reporter describes a questionnaire requiring specific information about not only cast and crewmembers’ race, gender and…
May 8 • 
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Once it becomes the consensus view among the elite - as it now has throughout the Anglosphere - that speech is violence, the censor and the Bowderlizer…
May 6 • 
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The Philosopher’s Stone in reverse. The politicization of Drag, or, more precisely, its annexation by woke progressivism, has done what even a…
May 5 • 
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The progressive route to repression, as the liberal one before it, has often been to mobilize medicalized language to describe the ills of modern…
May 4 • 
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Am I a pessimist? Only in the serene sense of the geological record.
May 2 • 
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Optimism is dead, which given the empirical realities - and optimism is nothing if it is not empirical - is as it should be, and hope is running on…
Apr 30 • 
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