I just hope that one day – preferably when we’re both blind drunk
– we can talk about it.
~ J.D. Salinger
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Daily Archives: October 4, 2024
Book Recommendation
Parliament of Whores by P.J. O’Rourke
Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government
by P.J. O’Rourke
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This is how it works now with the news: the story begins with a moral, then a narrative is fashioned to support it.
~ Walter Kirn
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Campus Life at the
London School of Economics
Campus Life at the
London School of Economics
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The Russian revolution was not a socialist revolution, but a managerial revolution. Today Russia is the nation which has, in its structural aspects, advanced furthest along the managerial road.
~ James Burnham
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Campus Life at the
University of Tampa
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All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.
~ Ernest Hemingway
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People bind themselves into political teams that share moral narratives. Once they accept a particular narrative, they become blind to alternative moral worlds.
~ Jonathan Haidt
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