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Consider the Moralist (IV)
'Going to the Dogs' by Erich Kästner
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Harris Lechtzier

May 2023

Consider the Moralist (III)
'Going to the Dogs' by Erich Kästner
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Harris Lechtzier

April 2023

The Necessity of Saying
'The Life and Opinions of Zacharias Lichter' by Matei Călinescu
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Harris Lechtzier

March 2023

Secondhand Strangeness
On Svetlana Alexievich's 'Second-hand Time', the strangeness of truth, the death of the novel, and the strangeness of ourselves
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Harris Lechtzier

January 2023

Consider the Moralist (II)
'Going to the Dogs' by Erich Kästner
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Harris Lechtzier
AI Art Must Not Be Art
“Even art can have inhuman consequences.”
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Harris Lechtzier
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October 2022

Consider the Moralist (I)
'Going to the Dogs' by Erich Kästner
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Harris Lechtzier
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March 2022

Stop Avoiding Instinct
“You can only keep an old tradition going only by renewing it in terms of current circumstances.”
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Charlie Sherritz
Survival of the Cowardice
'The Stalin Front' by Gert Ledig
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Charlie Sherritz

February 2022

Incongruities II: The Zuckercurse
You cannot enhance your world by denying unalterable reality upon which it is based. The Metaverse is a denial, not an enhancement, of the world.
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Charlie Sherritz
Political Correctness is a False Virtue
"Obedient to constraint, I was compelled to submit."
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Charlie Sherritz
A Coward's Confession
'A Posthumous Confession' by Marcellus Emants
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Charlie Sherritz
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