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Newsletter #004: The Tension of Living
Leaving home for the larger stage
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Rachael Killackey
Motherhood and mimetic theory
We can choose camps, or we can escape.
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Eroticizing Friendship
Treating philia as the precursor to eros might just degrade both.
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The death of mastery
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Motherhood and mimetic theory
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Newsletter #002: Shiny, Happy People and Catholic Fundamentalism
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Eroticizing Friendship
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The contraceptive mentality
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Newsletter #003: On Losing the Art of Commentary
The comments section has brought out the worst in us, and how to perhaps begin to reverse course.
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The death of mastery
When everyone's super...no one will be.
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Newsletter #002: Shiny, Happy People and Catholic Fundamentalism
On poking metaphorical internet grizzly bears.
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Newsletter #001
Some musings on peace, good songs about rebellion, and books that carry no common theme in particular.
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The contraceptive mentality
"Why do you keep on using that word? I do not think it means what you think it means."
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Why the “men watch porn, women want romance” dichotomy no longer works–and why it’s harmful
A soliloquy on a common misconception
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What is a contrarian?
The Truth deserves pursuit from us.
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