I. The coat hook on the back of the restroom stall door was, for the duration of its tenure, a small act of civilization addressed to the stranger. It said: you will need both hands. It said: what you carry may be set aside for a moment. It presupposed a
In calendar year 2025, American households filed for personal bankruptcy at a rate not seen since the aftermath of the Great Recession. Consumer Chapter 7 filings rose fifteen percent year over year. December alone recorded a twenty-one percent spike. The aggregate number is still below the historical peak of 1.
The claim that Nineteen Eighty-Four is fundamentally a critique of James Burnham is compelling but requires more qualification than it usually receives, and the qualification is not merely academic caution. Orwell’s explicit targets were multiple and not always consistent. He said the novel was primarily about Stalinist totalitarianism. He
They buried the philosopher in Indiana on a Thursday in April, at a chapel on Twickenham Boulevard in Lafayette, half a world and half a century away from the island where the arguments that shaped him once ran into the Adriatic dusk. Korčula, in those summers between 1963 and 1974,
The announcement broke on a Saturday, as these things tend to do: quietly enough to blunt the news cycle, loudly enough to register. The Trump Organization has signed on to build a 70-story luxury tower in Tbilisi, Georgia, partnering with a consortium of local developers and the New York-based Sapir
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