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The Long Battle

What's Beyond Neoliberalism?

Does The Past Exist?

Soren Kierkegaard

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Match The Advice Column To The Famous Writer!

Free Speech Is Actually Really Simple

What I Wish I Knew When I Was In College

To Whom It May Concern

218: A Thanksgiving Story

What Is Substack For?

A Century of Chess

Jordan Peele's Divided Aesthetic

Marooned

Can America Exist Without A Shared Culture?

Finishing the Hat w/ Sam Kahn

Liberals v. Progressives

The End of Liberal Education?

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On Arts Competition and Arts Cabals

Is writing salvational, part of "a series of compulsions"—or both?

Guide to Punctuation

Israel's 9/11

Curator

Moment in the Sun

Yeah, Yeah, The Sexual Revolution

What Was Literacy?

Gentlemen Prefer Bitches

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Top Gun and Triangle of Sadness

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Summer of '23

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Substack Tenets (and viva Sarah Fay!)

Against Branding (and Sarah Fay)

Robert Paxton's Vichy France

Two Ways of Thinking About Modernism

Puppy Love

On Imagination

P Is For Pyle

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Stephen Crane's Red Badge of Courage

Fade Into You

On Red-Pilling

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The Fine Art of Tribalism

On Mentalities

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The North African Campaign

K is for Kundera

Writing As Performance

Is America A Failed State?

Gilles Deleuze's Societies of Control

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How Not To Cancel Russia

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Anniversary

New(ish) Books

Me Gustas Tu

On The Art of Dying

Monsieur Baudrillard and Mr. Beast

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HBO's Roman History Obsession

Commentator

The Hostage Negotiator

The Seducer

What I Was Doing In My Early 20s

Not-Particularly-New Books

On The Fear Culture

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On Clean Living

Brothers in Arms

Of Fuckboys and Men-Children

New(ish) Books

National Myths Old and New

Commentator

Curator

The Theory of Copies

Bare Existence

Third Worldization

Commentator

New(ish) Books

Pool Boy

On Chess, AI, Creativity

On Following

The Case For Astrology

Commentator II

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On Literary Careerism

Curator

208: Idaho

The Trip To New York

New(ish) Books

On Living in the Past

Curator

On Disliking Stories

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On 'The End of History?'

AE: Dubai

Weak Man

New(ish) Books

Curator

On The Public/Private Polarity

What I'm Looking For In Literature

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530: Road Trip in Paradise

On 'The Narcissist Society'

The Getting To Know You Phase

New(ish) Books

On Liedowns and the 'Meritocracy'

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On Freedom of Expression

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Tár

Little Children

In The Bedroom

Weirdo Watch

In Search of Artistic Integrity

New(ish) Books

On 'Bullshit Jobs'

Clifford Odets

Curator

Launching 'Inner Life'

On The Loaded Word Spiral

Commentator

G is for Gionfriddo

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Acts of Service

On Ghosting

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Why Realism

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Wolves At The Gates

Girl Talk

New(ish) Books

Are Power and Freedom Opposites?

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What This Substack Is Up To

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