Category: Wisdom
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For seven months, in a private Telegram chat, Young Republican party officials and activists from New York to Arizona exchanged racist, homophobic, and antisemitic messages so vile they could have come from the darkest corners of the internet. They joked about loving Hitler, mocked Black people as “watermelon people” and “monkeys” hurled slurs at LGBTQ+…
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When the Swedish Academy announced that Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai had won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art,” it resonated far beyond the literary world. Krasznahorkai has long been called the “master of the apocalypse,” a writer…
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Picture this as satire: you’re driving down Pennsylvania Avenue and the White House has become a tollbooth—pure metaphor, not a factual claim. Inside, a neon-vested Donald Trump leans out and says, “Pay up,” lowering the striped barrier. What follows is commentary and opinion based on publicly reported facts from U.S. and international outlets. Those reports describe payments, settlements, lobbying, and access-seeking…
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Paul Bloom’s recent essay in The Chronicle of Higher Education, “Why Aren’t Professors Braver?,” makes a point that resonates beyond universities. He argues that the very process of American education selects for caution rather than courage. From the earliest stages of schooling, US students learn that advancement depends on following rules, deferring to authority, and…
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If you have ever worked with someone like Doc Brown from Back to the Future, you already know the thrill and exhaustion that comes with proximity to brilliance. The brilliant, unpredictable mind who sees things no one else sees, solves problems no one else can, and sometimes drives everyone else just a little bit crazy in…
Cloaking Inequity 