charlie g
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I have spent two years at Oxford and talked to fair number of undergrads and 19 year old me would have never known about secondary lit in Philosophy or general shape of some historiography. Even if it only a "map" of knowledge, it is incredulous they know it at all!
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A brilliant and wide-ranging conversation between @dwallacewells and Adrienne Buller on the state of climate politics, the incredible pace at which previously unthinkable catastrophes become mundane, and where we go from here.
Read it below 👇
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charlie in dissent!! new wunderkind just dropped !!
charlie g@normanbolzman
out in @DissentMag today with a review of fetterman and manchin's sterile memoirs, including brief reminisces of the time i spent as a teenager in the senate chamber watching build back better collapse dissentmagazine.org/article/fetter…
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I read both books earlier this year and found them dry as onion skin. All the more impressive that Charlie found something interesting to say about both
charlie g@normanbolzman
out in @DissentMag today with a review of fetterman and manchin's sterile memoirs, including brief reminisces of the time i spent as a teenager in the senate chamber watching build back better collapse dissentmagazine.org/article/fetter…
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spending the summer in beijing so i can communicate with moby dick
Joe Weisenthal@TheStalwart
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Before ChatGPT, there was the Plot Robot, Auto-Beatnik, and a century’s worth of schemes for automating authorship. newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…
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have a feeling labatut’s work will age poorly, will not elaborate
Jessica Hooten Wilson@HootenWilson
One of the best explanation for why colleges dropped humanities & classics is Jacobs's Year of our Lord 1943. Scientific progress pushed out moral formation. Also read Labatut's book on science in WWII (fiction). barnesandnoble.com/w/the-year-of-…
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out in @DissentMag today with a review of fetterman and manchin's sterile memoirs, including brief reminisces of the time i spent as a teenager in the senate chamber watching build back better collapse
dissentmagazine.org/article/fetter…
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I just discovered the social surrealism of Irving Norman and...this guy needs a much wider audience.
There was NOBODY painting like this in postwar america. We need his ferocious vision today.
irvingnorman.com
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really funny but good line here from Paul in a convo with @zachdcarter i watched this weekend, to "think of keynes not as the prophet of increasing aggregate demand but as the prophet of creating a world that's safe for art"
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