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Books
fromThe Atlantic
4 days ago

How Long Can You Live Your Ideals?

Pat Calhoun chooses parenthood over radicalism, paralleling Elsa Haddish's struggle between her militant past and raising her daughter safely.
fromThe New Yorker
6 days ago

Growing Up as the Child of Radical Revolutionaries

One cold morning in 1980, when I was not yet four years old, my mother woke me while it was still dark, pressing her face against my cheek. 'We have to leave,' she whispered.
NYC parents
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Your Life Without Me by James Meek review angel of destruction haunts a domestic drama

A great demolition is also an act of creation, so long as its execution is bold and impressive enough, so long as it clears out the dead wood and opens up the terrain. It's the ethos that links Pablo Picasso to 1970s punk, Shiva the Destroyer to the anarchist hero of Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent. Rip it up and start again. Or rip it up for the pure thrill of the ripping.
Books
Film
fromInverse
6 months ago

'One Battle After Another' Is An Action Blockbuster Like No Other

Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another is a darkly comic, sprawling, propulsive thriller starring Leonardo DiCaprio that succeeds as an entertaining, deeply layered epic.
Left-wing politics
fromenglish.elpais.com
10 months ago

Slavoj Zizek, philosopher: Wisdom is what I hate most, it is absolute conformist stupidity'

Slavoj Zizek passionately critiques societal norms, revealing a misanthropic view on progress and small talk, emphasizing the need for uncomfortable philosophical discourse.
Black Lives Matter
fromtime.com
10 months ago

The D.C. Jewish Museum Shooting Was Inevitable. The Time to Act on Antisemitism is Now

The murder of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim highlights a surge in targeted antisemitism and violence against the Jewish community.
fromwww.mediaite.com
10 months ago

They Mean It When They Say They Hate Jews!' Fox's Harris Faulkner Goes OFF After Anti-Semitic DC Murders

"Life. That is not something that these animals cherish. Not even their own... They're willing to die for their cause... This festered, this has been tolerated."
Right-wing politics
Germany politics
fromSpiegel
10 months ago

Compendium of Extremism: A Look inside the Report Documenting the AfD's Right-Wing Radicalism

The AfD party's rhetoric includes extreme nationalism, threats of violence against the government, and alarmist claims about societal issues.
London politics
fromThe Nation
10 months ago

Christopher Hill's Revolutions

Christopher Hill was a pivotal historian who explored the dynamics of the English Revolution and its radical ideas through a class-focused lens.
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