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God’s Laboratory: On Science in the Service of Myth

Scientists have located the Garden of Eden. It is in Botswana. This was reported not in the theology section of any publication but as a science...

10.06.2026 20

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Project Hail Mary: a Review

A couple of weeks ago I came across an image — NASA, James Webb Space Telescope — showing a small quadrant of black sky packed with what looked...

03.06.2026 10

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A Modest Proposal: On the Windfall Owed to America’s Elders, and Other Logical Consequences of Personhood at Conception

“Adam was an Onanist.” — Graffiti, men’s restroom, Vatican City (public wing) “I know. I watched.” — Added below, in gold marker Woman,...

25.05.2026 10

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Fanon’s Rainbow: The Lithium Under Appalachia

Appalachia has been here before. Not the lithium part, but the part where something valuable gets discovered underneath people who have been poor for...

13.05.2026 30

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The Pope They Didn’t Want You to Notice: Race, Moral Authority, and the Audacity of JD Vance

On April 14, 2026, Vice President JD Vance stood before a half-empty arena at the University of Georgia, courtesy of Turning Point USA, and decided to...

05.05.2026 10

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“Mercy:” Judge Maddox Will See You Now

The Chair Is Already Built There is a moment early in Mercy, Timur Bekmambetov’s Amazon MGM techno-thriller, when Detective Christopher...

07.04.2026 20

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The Architect of Shadows: How Epstein Used Genius As Raw Material

I. The Myth of the Senile Scholar In February 2026, the intellectual left was hit with a curious form of damage control. Valeria Chomsky issued a...

10.03.2026 40

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Smile, You’re on Fusion Database: On Surveillance, Simulation, and the Final Frontier Between Your Ears

I was watching an NBA game recently when the in-arena camera began its familiar sweep of the crowd. The moment faces appeared on the overhead...

05.03.2026 20

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All Aboard the Secular Zion Train

On February 21, 2026, Tucker Carlson flew to Israel to interview Mike Huckabee, the United States Ambassador to Israel, ordained Baptist minister, and...

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The Mamdani Peace Dividend?

On March 5, 1770, a crowd of Boston colonists gathered to protest British soldiers quartered among them, taxing them without parliamentary...

25.02.2026 20

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The Ugly Americans

In the classic Cold War film The Ugly American, Marlon Brando plays an American ambassador neck-deep in the kind of covert operations that would later...

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All the Pretty Koch Suckers

There’s a moment in Season 1 of Landman that crystallizes everything. The oil company’s shareholders gather in their boardroom, high above the...

10.12.2025 30

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Murdering Journalists in Gaza

On November 19, 2023, Belal Jadallah, the founding director of Press House, Palestine, was killed by an Israeli air strike as he tried to evacuate...

24.06.2025 30

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The Chaos of Creation: An Interview with Emmalea Russo

Emmalea Russo is a writer and astrologer. Her books of poetry are G, Wave Archive, Confetti, and Magenta. Recent work has appeared in Artforum, BOMB,...

18.06.2025 30

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Three Steps Forward, 10 Steps Back: George Floyd’s Murder and Aftermath

Five years ago, George Floyd, an African American, was murdered by a white police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during an arrest made after a...

02.06.2025 30

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Now It’s Dark: Alex Gibney How on Big Money Bought the American Political System

The Dark Money Game, the new two-part documentary from Alex Gibney, confirms the worst: America has all-but succumbed to the terminal cancer of...

29.05.2025 30

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