#Books

This was a weird year! I ended up taking about a quarter of 2020 off for family leave, dealing with kids and online school, etc. But I still wrote a
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this morning listening to the panelists presenting on "BLACK LIVES MATTER: A TRANSATLANTIC DISCUSSION ABOUT THE MOVEMENT IN THE GERMAN CONTEXT"https://www.goethe.de/ins/us/en/spr/eng/top/tte/vtours/21915931.html @tnflorvil next pa
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This thread is pretty excellent, and it's difficult to put across because a lot of people talk about dysphoria as feeling constrained in your assigned role or something whereas (like
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Yikes. Yeah, religious institutions/culture is a real blind spot for liberal centrist types. Not all, obviously (Friedersdorf is good), but most. Hence this, or Cathy Young’s assertion last month that
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‘Freedom is not doing the things that you are inclined to do. It is reflecting upon what you ought to do, as your unrepeatable self, and just occasionally taking a
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I just finished "The Chastening" by Blustein. A minor problem of mine with the market history sub-genre is quantities they talk about becomes hard to weigh as time passes. I
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In the new You're Wrong About episode about Tipper Gore's crusade against "porn rock", @RottenInDenmark observed that media oriented moral panics like this often collapse the context of the things
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Don’t get too worried/excited when you see articles like these:“Jeff Bezos just made $30 billion in 1 day”“Elon Musk just lost $16.3 billion”It doesn’t mean that $30bn just entered Bezos’
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I just don't know how the movie theater thing can possibly work right now. Even just setting aside if it's safe for theaters to reopen (it's not), who will actually
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Reminder: the authors of the bestselling books in the Christian Book Distributors catalogue are not the only representatives of Protestant Christianity in the United States. They’re representative of a certain
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2020 has been a weird-arse year on the publishing front, and the weirdest part has been the launch of the @BrainJarPress store in August so I could do direct sales
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A short thread on books to read instead of a certain report. Du Bois's last chapter of Black Reconstruction is quite appropriate. As a Harvard PhD, I think that he
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Sadly Rep. John Lewis was buried today and CEO Herman Cain died. Both were leaders of people and so will be missed one marched with @MittRomney 's dad for an
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The overwhelming commonality of these thimble-deep thinkers on the blackpilled Right is that they all move in the same insular circles, scarcelyever perking their antisocial skulls out of the sand
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Germany is planning to strenghten their #democracyatwork.But don't they already have a strong system of #Mitbestimmung? Yes, but there are some problems and there's room for improvement (1/7) As
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All words, in every language, are metaphors. And when many of the referents of those metaphors are inherently tied to previous works of literature, it's useful for the lector to
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