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What Do They Mean When They Tell Us the Economy Was “Good?”

Part of the narrative to which the “It’s Not the Economy, Stupid” crowd is sticking in regard to the U.S. national election of 2024 is that…

Mar 28

Mar 28

Ten Tips for Staying Sane While Following the News

Following the news is stressful, and often pointlessly so, not only because of the undeniably terrible things going on in a world that is…

Mar 28

Mar 28

The Age of Austerity and the Assault on Britain’s Libraries

Reading United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights Professor Philip Alston’s report on his visit to Britain and…

Nov 8, 2024

Nov 8, 2024

James Ponsoldt’s The Circle and the Tyranny of Generic Classification

I missed James Ponsoldt’s The Circle when it first came out back in 2017 but caught it on streaming some years later. As I had largely…

Nov 7, 2024

Nov 7, 2024

What Do We Mean by “Freedom of Speech?” And the Defense of the Right to That Freedom?

The remark “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it” is famously attributed to the eighteenth…

Nov 7, 2024

Nov 7, 2024

Why Are We Always Being Told to “Be Grateful?”

It is the conventional view that the feeling and expression of gratitude — of thankfulness — is a great virtue, and its lack a great…

Nov 7, 2024

Nov 7, 2024

“Traditional vs. Self-Publishing”

Back when there was more talk about the phenomenon of self-publishing than we hear now due to the comparative novelty of e-book readers…

Nov 7, 2024

Nov 7, 2024

Where Do People Get the Idea That They Are Temporarily Embarrassed Millionaires?

In Slaughter-house Five Kurt Vonnegut’s narrator presents a lengthy passage from a (fictional) monograph about America intended to help…

Nov 7, 2024

Nov 7, 2024

Of Generalizations, Sweeping Generalizations, and the Idiots Who Refuse to Respect the Difference…

The word “generalization” may be defined as “a general proposition about the world, typically obtained from observation of the world, and…

Nov 7, 2024

Nov 7, 2024

Stanley Kubrick and the “F” Word

Some time ago I looked over those charges and countercharges about the politics of A Clockwork Orange between its director Stanley Kubrick…

Nov 7, 2024

Nov 7, 2024

Nader Elhefnawy

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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