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| | Anthony Galluzzo I Victor Frankenstein, the titular character and "Modern Prometheus" of Mary Shelley's 1818 novel, drawing on his biochemical studies at the University of Ingolstadt, creates life by reanimating the dead. While the gothic elements of Shelley's narrative ensure its place, or those of its twentieth-century film adaptations, in the pantheons of popular horror,...
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| | PMC discourse rationalized Left defeat. What does it miss?
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| | Last year I read F.A. Hayek's The Road to Serfdom and Karl Polanyi's The Great Transformation back to back. Both published in 1944, these great works of political economics were attempts by their authors to grapple with the collapse of western civilization into the fascist totalitarianism of the Second World War. For Hayek, a classical liberal, totalitarian tragedy follows inevitably from the authoritarianism of State Socialism. For Polanyi, who was more of an economic sociologist, the fascism of WWII followed inevitably from the dehumanizing forces of the preceding century of Market Capitalism.
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| Reposted from the Fabius Maximus blog By Larry Kummer, Editor / 17 November 2019 Summary: Let's hit "pause" in the climate wars and see how we got here, where we are going, and what we can learn from this mess. "I can't use this result. It doesn't support the narrative." Photo 99364552 © Standret -...