After Postliberalism
Nathan Schlueter at Public Discourse
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Psychedelia
I didn't realize the City of San Francisco canceled its 4/20 celebration this year due to lack of funding (its budget blown on free booze and needles for the homeless, I suppose) and a lack of corporate sponsorships.
Corporate sponsorships? In the heart of the Haight?
Nonetheless,
Why Universities Should Be More Like Monasteries
Molly Worthen at the New York Times
Martin Amis, RIP
Matthew Walther at The Lamp
Foucault was a Pedophile?
And introducing one of the themes of Part III of The Existence Strikes Back project: The rise of the irrational.
BYCU: The Welcome-to-Summer Edition
"Non-Alcoholic Drinks" Shouldn't Even be on the List, Unless You're Going to Include Ice Tea and Lemonade
An alcoholic drink without alcohol is like poker played for funzies. There are better games than poker if money isn't involved, and there are better
Fresh Cliché
Matthew Stewart at Current
Day Drinking
This NYT piece had great potential, none of it actualized. It was just the same palaver: empty stomach increases effect of alcohol, the sun further dehydrates you, yada and yads.
I think the cue ("Why do we like to drink in the afternoon?") could've led to
The Death of Literature?
If no one can focus long enough to read it, no one is going to pay for it. If no one pays for it, no one can write it. That, I believe, is the steady theme of this lovely literary essay that doesn't merely lament the state of
Everything Bad Is Good for You: A Review
This is a groundbreaking book by a clever man who goes too far.
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