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Nader Elhefnawy

Nader Elhefnawy

The Artist as Aristocrat

Those of conventional, “middle class” (aka, bourgeois) mind may look at the steady 8-to-6 routine of the employee at a materially…

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The Technocrat and The Cult of the Good School

For some decades it has been common for social critics to speak of professionals, “experts,” technocrats, “the overclass” (Michael Lind’s…

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Three Books to Read to Understand “The Writing Life”

I have often criticized the lousy job writers do of portraying what writers do, and what they go through in the course of their careers. Of…

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What the “News” Media Gave Us Then, What the News Media Give Us Now

Remarking his time working in Pittsburgh not long after the bloodbath that was the crushing of the Homestead steel strike (1892), where Big…

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“Show, Don’t Tell” and the Triumph of the Art of Beauty Over the Art of Power

In Mammonart Upton Sinclair draws a distinction between the “Art of Beauty” and the “Art of Power.” The former is distinguished by its…

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Form, Content — and Politics

As Upton Sinclair observes in Mammonart, “all art is propaganda.” However, he also observes that there is an “Art of Beauty” and an “Art…

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The Dead Internet Theory: A Few Thoughts

You may have heard of the “dead Internet theory” holding that most of the activity we see online is not human-originated, and indeed being…

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Of the Word “Badass”

I have always disliked the term “badass.”

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On the Conservatism of Journalists

In considering the politics of artists and how they are not necessarily what people expect them to be I have found myself also thinking of…

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The Teaching Life and its Hidden Psychological Costs

One of the more interesting aspects of Upton Sinclair’s study of the American school system The Goslings is his treatment of the situation…

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Nader Elhefnawy

Nader Elhefnawy is the author of the thriller The Shadows of Olympus. Besides Medium, you can find him online at his personal blog, Raritania.

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