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Two items jumped out at me in this Washington Post report about the terrible destruction of the Surfside-Miami-area building: 1. In 2018, the condo association hired a private engineering firm to examine the building: “In an October 2018 report, engineer Frank P. Morabito wrote that he had discovered “major structural damage” … 2. Despite that, a

Young Karl Marx, full of Sturm und Drang and apocalyptic fervor, wrote poetry expressing his strongest desires. Two excerpts, the first from Feelings (1836): “Worlds I would destroy for ever, Since I can create no world,  Since my call they notice never,  Coursing dumb in magic whirl.” And the second from The Fiddler (1837): “I

Four-minute excerpt here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbeCQis1kh7fEaOGPhG96SA. Why is everyone talking about postmodernism? In the 1990s, could one predict the “culture war” of the 2010s? Full interview topics covered: How I first came to read Rand, predicting postmodernism, connecting psychology to philosophy, from abstractions to particulars and putting the measurements back in, dealing with subverters, character and getting

On July 2, I’ll be interviewed by a man of integrity, Will Knowland, who was sacked from his teaching position at England’s prestigious Eton College. Here are two pieces of journalism on the context and results: Will Knowland was sacked from Eton College over video ‘The Patriarchy Paradox’ and Mixed race wife of Eton teacher