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Friday, January 21, 2022
50 Shades of Grey: An Allegorical-Political Reading
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Fifty Shades of Grey is a Marxist allegory, covering the development of the protagonist’s class consciousness, while tearing down, one by o...
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Saturday, July 31, 2021
Coleman Cox Hates You and Other Observations
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At a recent trip to a thrift store, I came across Straight Talk from Coleman Cox , a 1928 collection of the "witty sayings" of a C...
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Tuesday, April 20, 2021
Tom Cantor Seems Like a Loser and a Moron
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Earlier today, I received in the mail an unsolicited autobiography by Tom Cantor titled Changed, which is a recounting of Cantor's decis...
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Monday, December 10, 2018
Everybody's Dystopia: The Ambivalent Politics of The Hunger Games
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You've probably seen the meme that's been going around for a couple years, generally some variation on a particular idea: This gener...
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Tuesday, August 14, 2018
"Assassination Vacation" and the Reliquary of the Damned
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Sarah Vowell's Assassination Vacation (2005) is part pop-history and part travelogue. Vowell sets off to visit the places ass...
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Tuesday, August 7, 2018
On the True Origins of the Conspiracy Theorist
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The common explanation for how otherwise reasonable people end up believing in conspiracy theories is straight-forward and easy to empathi...
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Tuesday, October 10, 2017
Review: Mr. Holmes (2015)
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Director: Bill Condon Runtime: 104 minutes I finally got around to watching Mr. Holmes on Netflix. The film, based on Mitch Cullin...
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