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Author Archives: Max West
Logic Lane: A Philosophical Retrospective (1972)
It is a retrospective by Professor Sir Alfred Ayer of the development of philosophy in Oxford from the 1930’s to 1972. Excerpts are included from some of the other films in the series which use conversations on a variety of … Continue reading
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Mexico Arrests Knights Templar Cartel Leader
Shorty Guzman further consolidates his power, by eliminating his competition: The armed vigilante groups that arose to defend communities in the western Mexican state of Michoacan from the depredations of a powerful drug cartel voiced satisfaction Monday over the arrest … Continue reading
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The Disappearing British Pub
It’s been a longstanding phenomenon, but the British are abandoning their classic pub culture. From the NYT: LONDON — One by one, the pubs are disappearing in Hampstead, a jewel-box village of cobbled lanes and Georgian homes that has become … Continue reading
Tucky Buzzard – Gold Medallions (1973)
I previously posted about the shortlived, and terribly underrated, British ’60s band ‘The End’. Well, their followup incarnation as a more hard-rock oriented Tucky Buzzard spawned this wonderful song, ripe for the arena rock environs that never materialized for the … Continue reading
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John Frum Day
In Vanuatu, Feb 15th is John Frum Day. If you’re unfamiliar with the notion of a ‘cargo cult’, read this lengthy piece in Smithsonian. In the morning heat on a tropical island halfway across the world from the United States, … Continue reading
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German Burnout
In the Times Literary Supplement, Anna Schaffner has an excellent essay on the topic of ‘burnout’ as it is currently playing out in Germany: One of the abiding refrains in exhaustion theories, both past and present, is the idea that … Continue reading
Marooned In One’s Own Skull
David Foster Wallace, from an 1993 interview with The Review of Contemporary Fiction: I guess a big part of serious fiction’s purpose is to give the reader, who like all of us is sort of marooned in her own skull, … Continue reading
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Bigger Than Phil
Writing in The New Yorker, Adam Gopnik has a typically well-written essay cum book review on various tracts studying atheism’s rise in modernity (“Bigger Than Phil: When did faith start to fade?”) Of the battle between ‘ayes’ (believers) and ‘nays’ … Continue reading
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HBD: Intelligence & NPTN Gene
The Telegraph reports on a new study published in Molecular Psychiatry: A gene which may make people more intelligent has been discovered by scientists. Researchers have found that teenagers who had a highly functioning NPTN gene performed better in intelligence … Continue reading
Jack Donaghy Says…
“I like you. You have the boldness of a much younger woman.”
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