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  • H.P. Lovecraft’s Politics

    H.P. Lovecraft’s Politics1

    Howard Phillips Lovecraft is, it seems, as popular as ever. “The indie Lovecraftian game Dredge is getting a live-action movie adaptation,” reports Screen Rant. And that’s just one recent example of the horror pioneer’s enduring influence. In this light, it’s worth asking what Lovecraft’s writing promoted ideologically, and to judge what portions of his political thought are

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  • The American and French Revolutions Compared

    The American and French Revolutions Compared3

    One of the many differences between the American and French Revolutions is that, unlike the French, Americans did not fight for an abstraction. Americans initially took up arms against the British to defend and preserve the traditional rights of Englishmen. The slogan “no taxation without representation” aptly summed up one of their chief complaints. The

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  • Friday Comic: Providence0

    Credit: OwenComics (store) X: @owenbroadcast Instagram: @owenbroadcast Save this article to favorites

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  • Don’t Skip the Boring Parts

    Don’t Skip the Boring Parts2

    When I taught literature, I had to frequently remind my students not to skip the “boring parts” of the books—things like long paragraphs describing scenery in Dickens’ Oliver Twist or the long list of ships that appears near the beginning of The Iliad. I understand the temptation. When I was their age, I frequently skimmed

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  • Shareable Snack: A Firsthand Account of the Civil War and Its Causes

    Shareable Snack: A Firsthand Account of the Civil War and Its Causes17

    Julius Franklin Howell joined the Confederate Army when he was 16. After surviving a few battles, Howell eventually found himself in a Union prison camp at Point Lookout, Maryland. In 1947, at the age of 101, Howell made a rare recording at the Library of Congress, in which he described his enlistment, sudden capture, and

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  • The Right to Speak Evil

    The Right to Speak Evil0

    Words can harm. The childhood saying “Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me” is obviously untrue. Words bring ruin and despair, drive people to suicide, and foment massacres and war. They are used to justify the enslavement of nations, and the genocide of entire ethnic groups. This is exactly

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