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  • Maria Popova: The Secret Behind 20 Years of Daily Writing

    The writer behind the legendary blog “The Marginalian” David Perell May 13, 2026 vMaria Popova is famous for her personal blog, The Marginalian, where she’s published more than six million words. All the nights I’ve spent reading her writing were like an entry point into intellectual curiosity. She’s introduced me to more writers and ideas than just…

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  • What It Means to Be a Writer: John Steinbeck’s Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech About Slicing Through Humanity’s Confusion

    BY MARIA POPOVA “Mankind is challenged, as it has never been challenged before, to prove its maturity and its mastery — not of nature, but of itself. Therein lies our hope and our destiny,” the great marine biologist and author Rachel Carson addressed the next generations as she catalyzed the environmental movement with her courageous exposé of…

  • Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

    Gender, labor, democracy, and Americanism: U.S. history in the (un)making By Aimee Rickman (Posted Nov 29, 2023) Culture, Empire, Feminism, InequalityAmericas, United StatesCommentaryAmerican Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Featured In the early hours of Monday, May 15, 2023, the historical highway marker recognizing the birthplace of a renown feminist, anti-racist labor organizer and defender of reproductive…

  • Evo Morales: `I declare myself Marxist … now let the OAS expel Bolivia’

    MastodonFacebookTwitterEmailShare During his intervention at the seventh ALBA Summit, Bolivia’s president Evo Morales recalled the 1962 documents of the Organisation of American States (OAS) that resulted in Cuba being expelled from the organisation, and outlined the importance of reflecting on the motives of that expulsion. The resolution indicates that the adherence of any member country…

  • GROWTH WAVES

    GROWTH WAVESISRAELI BOMBS | TEA | BRETTON WOODS     Kamala Ibrahim Ishag, Procession, 2015.     TECHNOLOGY AND GROWTHGROWTH WAVESISRAELI BOMBS | TEA | BRETTON WOODS     Kamala Ibrahim Ishag, Procession, 2015.     TECHNOLOGY AND GROWTH The global energy transition and the specter of AI have led to predictions of massive changes to the global social…

  • Imperialist Propaganda and the Ideology of the Western Left Intelligentsia: From Anticommunism and Identity Politics to Democratic Illusions and Fascism

    by Gabriel Rockhill and Zhao Dingqi (Dec 01, 2023) Topics: Ideology  Imperialism  Marxism  Movements  State Repression Places: Americas  United States Gabriel Rockhill is executive director of the Critical Theory Workshop/Atelier de Théorie Critique and professor of philosophy at Villanova University in Pennsylvania. He is currently completing his fifth single-author book, The Intellectual World War: Marxism versus the Imperial Theory Industry (Monthly Review Press, forthcoming). Zhao Dingqi is an assistant researcher at…

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