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Small Worlds
A closer look at the Kondo craze indicates that it promotes the liberationist dogmas of the restless spirit over against the disciplines of an engaged mind. By Chris Lehmann.
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Martin Aurelio reviews The Nine Laws by Ivan Throne
What if Julius Evola had written a samurai treatise? What if Lao Tzu had written a long, systematic book of philosophy instead of the short, poetic chapters of the Tao Te Ching? What if the famed, long-lost book On Nature by Heraclitus – he who was called “The Dark” – were to be found and published?
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On epigenetics: we need both Darwin’s and Lamarck’s theories
Darwin’s theory that natural selection drives evolution is incomplete without input from evolution’s anti-hero: Lamarck. By Michael Skinner .
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What Was the Nerd?
The myth of the bullied white outcast loner is helping fuel a fascist resurgence. By Willie Osterweil.
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Do Your Family Members Have a Right to Your Genetic Code?
When a woman gets her genome sequenced, questions about privacy arise for her identical twin sister. By Emily Mullin.
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Forgotten Childhood Memories Still Shape Your Life
Much of your identity is formed during moments you won't remember. By Erika Hayasaki.
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The art of being yourself
Caroline McHugh
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No, identity politics is not to blame for the failures of the left
This is no time to back away from our commitment to women’s rights, racial justice and sexual equality.. By Laurie Penny.
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The Russian App That Has Destroyed Privacy Forever
See a pretty girl or guy on the street? Snap a pic, and you can find out who they are. What could go wrong? By Ashlee Vance.
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Moral character is the foundation of a sense of personal identity
We tend to think that our memories determine our identity, but it’s moral character that really makes us who we are. By Nina Strohminger.
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What Is a ‘Self’?
Here Are All the Possibilities. By Robert Lawrence Kuhn.
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No Man Will Shake Me From This Land
Dr. Bones makes the case why no election will drive him from the shores of this continent…
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Identity Issues Don’t Distract From Economic Issues — They Are Economic Issues
What Trumpism could do to our human infrastructure. By Rebecca Traister. (Dec. 11, 2016)
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Listening for the Country
“I’m not sure what Mama prayed for during that time, but I know in those last years with her and Daddy, bitterness and Daddy’s perpetual incorrigibility had made her too tight to pray right for anything.” By Zandria F. Robinson. (Dec. 8, 2016)
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The secret to living a meaningful life
Your ambitions to improve your life do not need to be confined by your personality. By Christian Jarrett.
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The Unsettling Vision of Rei Kawakubo
Her genius is for wrapping up the paradoxes of being a misfit and a cipher in something to wear that is magically misfitting. By Judith Thurman. (July 4, 2005)
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Companies start implanting microchips into workers’ bodies
At Swedish start-up hub Epicenter, workers can get implanted with microchips that function as swipe cards: to open doors, operate printers, or buy smoothies with a wave of the hand.
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Descartes was wrong
‘A person is a person through other persons.’ By Abeba Birhane.
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Feeling authentic in a relationship comes from being able to be your best self, not your actual self
it might be time to revise the authenticity trope in romantic movies… By Christian Jarrett.
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Doll in Shadow
Alzheimer's destroyed my mother's memory, but she remembered the doll. By Maria Browning.
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