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Category: Essay
A Slave to the Machine (newsletter)
Published by Admin on December 13, 2023[Nothing to say about Gaza this time around, to your relief. But it breaks my heart to see it.] First my daughter, then my wife,…
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Published by Admin on November 16, 2023I feel guilty for allowing a pet to die, but not as guilty as certain national leaders should feel. Here’s the story. In 2009, after…
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Published by Admin on October 17, 2023A word about endangered books: There’s been a lot of news recently—way too much, actually—about books being banned from schools and libraries. Most have “woke…
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Published by Admin on September 17, 2023Let’s talk about what’s behind rising prices. But first, a word from our sponsor: The Small Print Most of you have been receiving these newsletters…
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Published by Admin on August 18, 2023Dear Readers, This month, no august pronouncements, just some random thoughts. Well, just one diatribe: Tech companies want to make themselves indispensable for anyone who…
Leave a CommentThe Manichean Candidate (Newsletter)
Published by Admin on July 26, 2023Named after a third-century Persian prophet named Mani, Manicheism is an extreme form of dualistic gnosticism. It is gnostic because it promises salvation through the…
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Published by Admin on May 25, 2023Dear Readers, This month’s newsletter is brought to you by the letter G. To start you off, here’s a typographic riddle. I saw this text…
Leave a CommentEphemera Are Us (Newsletter)
Published by Admin on April 19, 2023This is a story about why technological innovation should worry us as our lives inexorably shift online, if only because innovation begets obsolescence. Fourteen years…
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How the Empire Thinks (Bulletin)
Published by Admin on April 6, 2023Dear Readers, Just a quickie to tide you over while I assemble sources and thoughts for the next newsletter, on the fragility of our stories.…
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