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NYFF: Festival of Darkness
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October 27, 2025 at 11:14 PM
NYFF: Festival of Darkness
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For years it's driven me crazy to see so many people misunderstand and misuse the term "neoliberalism" -- and then, based on their misunderstandings, to engage in bad history and policy analysis. Herewith, an attempt at a corrective. libertiesjournal.com/articles/the...
The Nonsense of ‘Neoliberalism’ - Liberties
A Conceptual Trash Heap Toni Morrison was wrong when she intoned that language is violence. But let’s give her this: the reckless use of words can do violence, idiomatically speaking, to clear thinkin...
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October 14, 2025 at 9:14 PM
For years it's driven me crazy to see so many people misunderstand and misuse the term "neoliberalism" -- and then, based on their misunderstandings, to engage in bad history and policy analysis. Herewith, an attempt at a corrective. libertiesjournal.com/articles/the...
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The good people at @readliberties.bsky.social let me write up the highlights and misfires of this year's NYFF: libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...
NYFF: Festival of Darkness
What a strange and uncomfortable coincidence that the New York Film Festival has programmed one of its best line-ups during one of the worst years in modern American history. Filing out of any given s...
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October 27, 2025 at 9:25 PM
The good people at @readliberties.bsky.social let me write up the highlights and misfires of this year's NYFF: libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...
Two Crooked Streets: A Proposed Genealogy of Noir Poetry
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October 14, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Two Crooked Streets: A Proposed Genealogy of Noir Poetry
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September 29, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Evelyn Waugh’s Decadent Redemption: Brideshead Revisited #literature
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Evelyn Waugh's Decadent Redemption
Brideshead Revisited is one of the great English novels of the twentieth century. It is beloved, but it also provokes antipathy — as it always has. When Evelyn Waugh wrote the novel in 1945 many of hi...
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September 28, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Evelyn Waugh’s Decadent Redemption: Brideshead Revisited #literature
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Grateful to share my new essay in Liberties Journal, “Sewn Close to Pascal’s Heart.”
A meditation on doubt, faith, and the ache of thinking deeply:
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Honored to be published alongside writers I’ve long admired.
#writing #philosophy #spirituality
A meditation on doubt, faith, and the ache of thinking deeply:
libertiesjournal.com/articles/sew...
Honored to be published alongside writers I’ve long admired.
#writing #philosophy #spirituality
October 8, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Grateful to share my new essay in Liberties Journal, “Sewn Close to Pascal’s Heart.”
A meditation on doubt, faith, and the ache of thinking deeply:
libertiesjournal.com/articles/sew...
Honored to be published alongside writers I’ve long admired.
#writing #philosophy #spirituality
A meditation on doubt, faith, and the ache of thinking deeply:
libertiesjournal.com/articles/sew...
Honored to be published alongside writers I’ve long admired.
#writing #philosophy #spirituality
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My essay, Zion, about being in Shangri-La Tibet on October 7th 2023, is now up at Liberties Journal @readliberties.
I wrote about my despair and about trying to hold on to hope. Because, really, what do we have but hope?
Read the full essay at libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...
Read the full essay at libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...
Shangri-La: October Seventh, 2023
I was in Shangri-La, in a village in the Tibetan Himalayas on October 7th, 2023. More precisely, I was in the Shangri-La tourism zone of Yunnan, a popular Chinese travel destination marketed as the “t...
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October 8, 2025 at 6:11 PM
My essay, Zion, about being in Shangri-La Tibet on October 7th 2023, is now up at Liberties Journal @readliberties.
I wrote about my despair and about trying to hold on to hope. Because, really, what do we have but hope?
Read the full essay at libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...
Read the full essay at libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...
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Brief Encounters by Michael Walzer libertiesjournal.com/articles/bri...
Brief Encounters - Liberties
I have not lived among famous people. My comrades were lovely men and women rarely celebrated or even mentioned in the mass or mainstream media. But I did meet briefly with people like those described...
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October 8, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Brief Encounters by Michael Walzer libertiesjournal.com/articles/bri...
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Don’t read this for my sake—my future is all used up. Read it for Kenneth Fearing, Alfred Hayes, and Weldon Kees. They’ve still got it. libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...
Two Crooked Streets: A Proposed Genealogy of Noir Poetry
Lovers of noir are generally aware that the term was initially applied to the works of a set of US authors and filmmakers in retrospect, from afar, when the French were first granted access to films t...
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October 13, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Don’t read this for my sake—my future is all used up. Read it for Kenneth Fearing, Alfred Hayes, and Weldon Kees. They’ve still got it. libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...
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Here, have 6000 words on Yasunari Kawabata: libertiesjournal.com/articles/the...
The High Art of Distance - Liberties
“Art, of course, lives in history,” said Elizabeth Hardwick. By which she meant that a novel emerges in its own time, and changes in its passage to our own. This — the likeness which is also an unlike...
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October 8, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Here, have 6000 words on Yasunari Kawabata: libertiesjournal.com/articles/the...
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If only someone had made a great film about the innate bottomless nihilism of online life, where the ravenous search for depraved stimulation hollows you out, and erases everything human in you...if only... libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...
The Empire of Ugliness
1 Few works of art have captured the cesspool that is our social media public square as forcefully as this year’s “Red Rooms,” by Quebecois filmmaker Pascal Plante. The movie introduces us to Kelly-A...
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September 12, 2025 at 3:59 PM
If only someone had made a great film about the innate bottomless nihilism of online life, where the ravenous search for depraved stimulation hollows you out, and erases everything human in you...if only... libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...
Join Morten Høi Jensen and @celestemarcus.bsky.social on Zoom, Tuesday, September 30th at 12 PMEST/6PM CST to discuss Celeste's essay from the recent issue "The Other Obliteration: A Report from the West Bank"
September 17, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Join Morten Høi Jensen and @celestemarcus.bsky.social on Zoom, Tuesday, September 30th at 12 PMEST/6PM CST to discuss Celeste's essay from the recent issue "The Other Obliteration: A Report from the West Bank"
We're hiring! For the full listing: libertiesjournal.com/assistant-pu...
September 7, 2025 at 4:48 PM
We're hiring! For the full listing: libertiesjournal.com/assistant-pu...
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'The people of Gaza have never been in greater need of international intervention. They need help— not only from Israel, from Hamas too. Recognizing a Palestinian State is not a reward for violence; it is the conclusion of a sincere dedication to statecraft.'
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The End of Terror and the Establishment of Palestine
The Palestinians have been waiting for a state for a long time. Recognizing the State of Palestine, as several European countries have chosen to do in the recent weeks, is about much more than politic...
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September 3, 2025 at 7:07 PM
'The people of Gaza have never been in greater need of international intervention. They need help— not only from Israel, from Hamas too. Recognizing a Palestinian State is not a reward for violence; it is the conclusion of a sincere dedication to statecraft.'
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“One of the things that distinguishes totalitarianism from other kinds of state tyranny is the way in which it invades every nook and cranny of human existence…[it] makes apolitical life impossible, thereby rendering impossible any apolitical treatment of art.”
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Unsentimental Education: Peter Weiss’s Aesthetics of Resistance
There’s a quote I’m fond of, falsely attributed to Lenin, that “ethics are the aesthetics of the future.” It was in fact coined by Gorky, and as with so many misattributed phrases, it is also misquote...
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September 4, 2025 at 7:12 PM
“One of the things that distinguishes totalitarianism from other kinds of state tyranny is the way in which it invades every nook and cranny of human existence…[it] makes apolitical life impossible, thereby rendering impossible any apolitical treatment of art.”
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From Ihab Hassan's recent essay for @readliberties.bsky.social
September 5, 2025 at 12:03 AM
From Ihab Hassan's recent essay for @readliberties.bsky.social