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“Some Principles of Democracy and Deconstruction—American or Otherwise” by A....

“Some Principles of Democracy and Deconstruction—American or Otherwise” by Sam Kimball. Worth wrapping your head around. 1. Democracy and deconstruction name the namelessness of a we, the people in...

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I Voted Early in Florida and It Was Easy

I voted last Thursday. It was easy. I had to go pick up my daughter from daycare, and an early voting location happened to be right on the way. I left half an hour early just in case, and then drove...

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“Just Asking”— David Foster Wallace’s 9/11 Thought Experiment

Here’s David Foster Wallace’s “Just Asking,” from the November, 2007 issue of The Atlantic– Are some things still worth dying for? Is the American idea* one such thing? Are you up for a thought...

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“Americans Are in a Way Crazy”— David Foster Wallace

Chapter 19 David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King (or, §19, if you prefer the book’s conceit) begins with this paragraph— ‘There’s something very interesting about civics and selfishness, and we get to...

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Michel Houellebecq on Tocqueville, Nietzsche, and Democracy

(Click the CC button for English subtitles). Tagged: de Tocqueville, Democracy, english subtitles, Michel Houellebecq, Nietzsche

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“Maybe there’s something wrong with our notion of paradise”— Slavoj Žižek

In an essay published today at the LRB, Slavoj Žižek addresses the current, disparate waves of protest around the globe and explores the difference between a reformist and a revolutionary period: in a...

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“Democratic Vistas”— Walt Whitman

“Democratic Vistas” by Walt Whitman Political democracy, as it exists and practically works in America, with all its threatening evils, supplies a training school for making first-class men. It is...

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