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On why you should never have displayed a Ukrainian flag
To be generous-spirited one can assume that those who displayed a Ukrainian flag on social media did so not in a spirit of fearful social...
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Jan 114 min read
Rosemary’s Baby: the World as Coven
Polish film poster for Rosemary's Baby  Rosemarys’ Baby  (1968), the first of Polanski’s ‘trilogy of evil’ that continued with Macbeth...
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Nov 24, 20247 min read
The Trans Delusion: a Philosophical Nail in its Coffin
Philosopher Thomas Nagel The arguments in philosopher Thomas Nagel’s seminal 1974 essay, What is it Like to be Bat? can help us answer...
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Nov 2, 202412 min read
Holocaust, and the Golden Age of the US Mini Series
The Goden Age of the American mini-series ran from 1976, beginning with Rich Man, Poor Man , and ending in 1989 with Lonesome Dove . Also...
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Sep 11, 202410 min read
The Fact of Brutality
On Leon Golub's Barbaric Realism “To represent terrible and questionable things is, in and of itself, an expression of the artist’s...
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Aug 11, 202410 min read
Cy Twombly's Iliad
“For those dreamers who considered that force, thanks to progress, could soon be a thing of the past, the Iliad  could appear as an...
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Jun 29, 202410 min read
Rembrandt's Secret
by Jean Genet Jean Genet became familiar with the paintings of Rembrandt on visits to London in 1952, Amsterdam in 1953, then Munich,...
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