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May 31, 2019
The Moral Hemisphere
A strange fact about the United States of America is that its name is not very specific.
A Different Annihilation
The first novel I read by Michel Houellebecq was Elementary Particles, probably in 1999. I read it in German translation, toward the end of a year…
Absolute Values
Published this summer by Harvard University Press but largely written, presumably, during the Biden administration, Dabhoiwala’s skeptical history of Anglosphere—especially U.S.—speech libertarianism is veined throughout…
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