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2025 Wrap-Up
It seems to be customary to do these kinds of annual lookbacks on here, which invariably double as further advertisements for oneself.
Dec 30, 2025
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My Music Career
I felt I needed a bit of a break from heavier themes, and this post was inspired by my friend Ryan Floyd of Detached Notes. He has belatedly made the…
Dec 22, 2025
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David Polansky: Anti-Americanism cannot build a nation
A work such as Lament for a Nation, while compelling and even brilliant in places, assumes a national legacy that never wholly existed, writes Guest…
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Nov 23, 2025
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A Hail Mary for Humanism?
Jun 20, 2025
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Non-immense Wars of the Non-spirit
May 26, 2025
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All These Moments Lost in Time
Aug 22, 2025
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Review: Shadi Hamid's The Case for American Power
Nov 17, 2025
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What Did We Learn?
Oct 8, 2025
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Against the Passive Voice
Sep 12, 2025
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Review: Shadi Hamid's The Case for American Power
or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Hegemon
Nov 17, 2025
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Political Theory in the Age of Mass Migration
David Polansky on a gap in the literature.
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Nov 5, 2025
What Did We Learn?
Looking back and forward on the second anniversary of the 10/7 attacks
Oct 8, 2025
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Against the Passive Voice
On the mental resistance of despair as political practice
Sep 12, 2025
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All These Moments Lost in Time
In praise of '80s movies
Aug 22, 2025
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"Children of Men" Could Have Been So Much Better
Instead, it’s a prophetic film that doesn't believe its own prophecy.
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Jul 16, 2025
On Exile
Considerations on Dante, Caetano Veloso, Jason Stanley, and me
Jul 4, 2025
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