by Marshall Yarbrough

History of a Disappearance – Filip Springer

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Springer’s history is simply a “beast,” sometimes slumbering, but more often fiercely awake.

Objectively False

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If stress makes us sick, all the more reason for us to avoid it; having medical evidence to back this up helps to bolster that argument. But surely we are not so neurotic as a society, so distrustful of our own subjective experience, that we need the supposedly objective ratification of an outside authority to make it seem valid?

The Misery of the General Reader: Fukuyama and Graeber

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If Francis Fukuyama allows me to congratulate myself for being a few shades less conservative than the author, then Graeber’s radicalism makes me feel flaccid, middle-class, and complicit in a system whose flaws I don’t even sufficiently perceive.

The Perils of Optimism, with Zeppelins

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Truth itself won’t be comforted, but there’s solace in seeing the huckster unmasked. On American optimism and THE CARP CASTLE by MacDonald Harris.