Culture

The Return of Brutalism 0
- Culture
- June 15, 2020
The lockdowners probably had no idea what they were about to unleash. On paper, their plans all seemed fine. Keep people apart. Make them stay home. Only essential workers should go to work. Government can do the rest. Church, theaters, sports, bars, schools – everything has to give way to rule by disease mitigators. Let
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It’s Time to Raze the Colosseum 0
- Culture
- June 12, 2020
A number of statues have recently been destroyed or vandalized to protest racism and slavery. I thought that it might be good to think big and work towards eliminating the biggest monument of all, the Colosseum. I’ve created a petition at change.org. If you agree, please sign it. Below is the text. Memorializing genocidal monsters,
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Loony Tunes Live, Radical Edition 0
- Culture
- June 12, 2020
“Those whom the gods would destroy they first make mad.” That warning comes to us as an ancient Greek proverb. You remember the ancient Greeks, right? Those guys we once considered some of the founding fathers of Western civilization before our academic institutions tossed them and all the other dead white men out the door?
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A Revolutionary Test of Seattle’s Autonomous Zone 0
- Culture
- June 11, 2020
First came the riots and the protests. Then came the surrender and disbanding of police forces. All in response to the death of George Floyd. What started in Minneapolis has now spread nationwide. No longer is Minneapolis alone in ordering police forces to flee their home turf, now a police precinct in Seattle has also
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J. K. Rowling, Burn The Witch!0
- Culture
- June 11, 2020
Could 2020 possibly get more strange? J. K. Rowling, creator of Harry Potter, has been canceled. That’s right. The author beloved by millennials everywhere, a generation who came of age alongside the boy wizard, has now been called out by their younger, more woke, siblings. Her crime, ironically enough, is to deny the power of
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Neighborhood-Based Friendships Return During COVID 0
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- June 11, 2020
As the weather has warmed in my Midwestern town, my neighborhood is full of children on bicycles pretending to be riding through the Wild West. I can’t walk down the sidewalk without stepping on chalk drawings or hopscotch boards. There are children jumping rope and playing ball. In the eight years I’ve lived here, I’ve
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