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In the interview with Marie-Claire magazine’s French edition, Moix, the author of several prize-winning novels, added that women in their 50s were “invisible” to him. “I prefer younger women’s bodies, that’s all. End of. The body of a 25-year-old woman is extraordinary. The body of a woman of 50 isContinue Reading

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Should be fun. “Nothing about Trump should now cast Cheney in a more favourable light. In truth they represent different versions – each nearly a caricature – of the American ruling class. Trump is a vain, imbecilic Master of the Universe who has sleazed his way to the top – first ofContinue Reading

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The fact that that the world is both made up of individuals and institutions neither means that the former govern the latter,  nor that the former are eclipsed by the latter.  It is a more complex influential interaction.  What this article and the book it reviews show is how thisContinue Reading

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Luis: NYT opinion piece supports Trumps response on the Khashoggi murder by prioritizing geopolitical investments in middle east even as some senators from both parties demand moral clarification on this fundamental violation of human rights. All of this after the CIA director revealed the existence of a wiretapped call betweenContinue Reading

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Two pieces from the LARB.  Both trace the evolution, or better devolution of American character and society.  The seeds have long been there and have been manifested in numerous ways.  Darkness on the Edge of America looks at the work of Edward Hopper, a documentary painter if there ever wasContinue Reading

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Following on the article Luis posted the divergence of identity between PC language and the values it identifies, this tale strikes my as an inversion what is elaborated in the first.   In this instance, words are instrumentalized into a PC language, — a Politically Centrist vocabulary; its faithfulness to centrism,Continue Reading

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Amazing pic. The yearning in this photograph is palpable, but what is it?  I don’t mean there should be a simple, one-size fits all answer.  Nor is this about one thing, like race or class.  The article doesn’t do the complex stakes that leap out of the picture justice. BetterContinue Reading