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So You've Been Publicly Shamed Review
So You've Been Publicly Shamed? inquires as to the effects and aftereffects of Twitter shamings and internet pile-ons. Jon Ronson worries after the ways in which this bleeds into reality, but I am less certain that the people who should, ever actually feel shame.
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Hubris, COVID, The DoE, and the Iraq War All Over Again
Sectors within the U.S. government and media seem desperate for the lab leak theory of COVID origins to be true, regardless of how little evidence presents itself in their favor. Have we always been living in 2003? Hubris provides my context here.
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Working the Children: Republicans Respond to the COVID Labor Shortage with Child Labor
The politics of regression have taken over the Republican Party entirely. From COVID to labor deregulation it is clear where the Republican Party wants us to go. Their Jim Crow, Gilded Era politics have been beaten before.
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Review: It Came From Something Awful
It Came From Something Awful attempts to answer the question: whence the alt-right and the political violence of 2017? The answer comes from the depths of the internet counter-culture and the particular tendency of screens to send users into a recursive loop: capital benefits and isolates.
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Returning to a Song of Ice and Fire After the End of the Bad Dragon Show
Since the end of Game of Thrones, the fan community for the book series has maintained itself through YouTube and meme accounts, fighting back against the lackluster end of the show.
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To Fantasize a Better Future: Terry Pratchett's Monstrous Regiment and Going Postal Review
Fantasy is normally the purview of the past, but Terry Pratchett's Monstrous Regiment and Going Postal both invoke a positive and possible future.
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Hannibal in Denmark: A Review of The Carthaginian North
The Carthaginian North is a hypothetical explanation for issues within the etymology and origin of the Proto-Germanic language; however, the story it tells never completely congeals.
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Arkansas' Legislative Transphobia: Attacking Children for Political Clout
In a wave of transphobic legislation in state senates, Arkansas represents a case study in the ALEC astroturfing behind the growth of fascism in America.
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Louisiana's Black Population Has Been Denied Their Fair Vote by the Supreme Court
With the recent ruling in Robinson v. Ardoin, the Supreme Court has continued its blatant Republican power grab.
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Welcome to Climate Hell
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In The Heart of the Sea Review: Why's It Always About Melville?
In the Heart of the Sea could have been a more interesting adaptation of Wreck of the Whaleship Essex, that's it, that's the article.
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The Mountain's Magnetism: Kotkin's "Magnetic Mountain" Review
Stephen Kotkin's "Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as Civilization" explores early Soviet rule in the planned city of Magnitogorsk. Read on to learn more.