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Desire and Fate
Historically, hope and anger have been the wellsprings of revolutionary politics.
Jul 8, 2024
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Desire and Fate
What should be obvious, but no longer seems to be, is that if everyone is excellent, then excellence has no meaning since the term itself was meant to…
Jul 7, 2024
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June 2024
Desire and Fate
The left has mistaken the West’s very real crisis of meaning for a crisis of representation, but in reality even in the unlikely event that the latter…
Jun 3, 2024
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Desire and Fate
The original medical definition of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) was first defined by the American Psychiatric Association in 1980 in the third…
Jun 2, 2024
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May 2024
Desire and Fate
The Triumph of the Therapeutic could not exist without the parallel Triumph of the Histrionic.
May 27, 2024
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Desire and Fate
The customer is always right. At an event for De Paul University alumni, a pro-Palestine activist interrupted a dean demanding what he thought of “De…
May 24, 2024
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Desire and Fate
A recent manifesto by the editors and reporters of the Columbia University student newspaper The Spectator denouncing that university’s failure to…
May 5, 2024
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Desire and Fate
Cioran wrote that intelligence flourishes only in ages when belief withers.
May 1, 2024
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davidrieff
Desire and Fate
The dystopia into which we have entered is neither Orwell’s 1984 nor Huxley’s Brave New World, but rather 1984 as rewritten by Huxley.
May 1, 2024
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davidrieff
April 2024
Desire and Fate
Toxic empathy. Once you relativize truth, feeling becomes unimpeachable and empathy a moral obligation, no matter what one is empathizing with.
Apr 28, 2024
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Desire and Fate
The Woke Academe “interrogates” everything, save for its own conventional wisdom.
Apr 17, 2024
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Desire and Fate
Our contemporary idols are so debased as to be undeserving even of our iconoclasm.
Apr 15, 2024
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