Madness – Page 6 – There are still faint glimmers of civilization left in this barbaric slaughterhouse that was once known as humanity.

Mesothelioma For A New Generation

You will know Covid is over when the lawsuits start. I would say we’re in for twenty years of greasy lawyers running ads on local television which begin, “Did Covid safety protocols at your job cause you emotional or financial distress? You may be entitled to a large cash settlement.”

Merch

From the Sometimes Gibbs shop. From the Gibbs Classical shop.

Karl Marx On “Fiscally Liberal, But Socially Conservative”

“The Communist revolution is the most radical rupture with traditional property relations; no wonder that its development involves the most radical rupture with traditional ideas.” -Karl Marx, The Communist Revolution (Penguin, p 243) In other words, Marx didn’t believe a man could be “fiscally liberal, but socially conservative.” If you’re game for a new wayContinue reading “Karl Marx On “Fiscally Liberal, But Socially Conservative””

The Progressive Ethos

A more apt example of progressive politics is hard to find. Ten people die at a concert? Something must change. Doesn’t even really matter what it is. Any change pacifies a bored populace.

Muppets Are Fashionable Again

I took the picture on the left at the Gap this afternoon.

Introductions Are Overrated

“More often than not, contextualization is just an easy way out. Rookie teachers spend too much time in Paradise Lost talking about John Milton because it is easier than talking about the book. Milton is the least interesting part of Paradise Lost, though, and that is because his poem is a complete success. So try teaching a bookContinue reading “Introductions Are Overrated”

Against: Grist For The Mill

Quite often, “teaching students how to think” simply means “teaching students how to criticize.” Teaching students how to criticize will not “irrigate deserts,” as Lewis put it, which is why so many 18 year-old Christian critics/analysts are men without chests who summarily quit church as soon as they can.

This Is The Best Essay I Have Read In Three Years

Sam Kriss’s review of Dostoyevsky’s Demons is not perfect, but it embodies the sort of ambition and verve that inspires fellow essayists (and makes them a little jealous, if I am being honest).

Sam Kriss Is A Vital New Writer

“How To Believe In Astrology,” the hit job on Alice Sparkly Kat’s Postcolonial Astrology, is magnificent.

Exceptional Critique

A friend sent me a link to this essay by Freddie deBoer, which opens on the late Woodstock 99 documentary, but quickly turns into a brilliant assessment of the infantilization of adult taste over the last ten years. If the title and the subject matter over the first six or seven paragraphs doesn’t hold you,Continue reading “Exceptional Critique”