Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
~ Jonathan Swift
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Daily Archives: November 18, 2024
Campus Life at the
Barnard College
Book Recommendation
American Politics: The Promise of Disharmony
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The third Awokening was smaller and shorter than the others, stretching from the late ’80s to the early ’90s, and repurposing and popularizing the Marxist term political correctness. Its main legacy was to set the stage for the fourth—and present—Awokening, which has been fueled by what the scholar Peter Turchin has termed “elite overproduction.”
~ Thomas Chatterton Williams
via Is Wokeness One Big Power Grab?
published by The Atlantic
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Book Recommendation
Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind’s Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer
Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind’s Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer
by P.J. O’Rourke author
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Campus Life at
Ulster University
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God didn’t die, he was transformed into money.
~ Giorgio Agamben
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Brené Brown was born on this day in 1965
Brené Brown — the American academic and podcaster — was born on this day — November 18, 1965 — in San Antonio, Texas.
Ms. Brown holds a Bachelor of Social Work degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 1995, a Master of Social Work degree, and a PhD in social work at the University of Houston Graduate School of Social Work.
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