Sublime

Dugin’s critique of liberalism — its roots in medieval nominalism and the Protestant Reformation, its use and later discarding of nationalism, and its post-or trans-human future — is completely unobjectionable. You don’t have to accept his prescriptions to value his diagnosis.

What to make of Turkey's culture war over its top tourist attraction? @AkyolinEnglish on what turning the Hagia Sophia back into a mosque says about Pres. Erdoğan & the country's political direction: https://t.co/OCOV7YnI3x

CEO of Palantir, Alex Karp: “The West is obviously superior. We had a pagan religion infiltrate our universities and our society, and that religion basically said that everything good about America and everything that has actually worked… is bad.” https://t.co/RGhm0GSu9n

for my @NewYorker column this week, I wrote about Byung-Chul Han, the internet's new favorite philosopher, the Sartre of looking at your phone a lot, author of the paperback manifesto your favorite artist / designer / architect is carrying in their pocket https://t.co/vJAgdEpq3H

Kuwaiti 🇰🇼 political scientist Abdullah Al-Nafisi on the Arab-Turk relationship: "The Turks, the #OttomanEmpire, ruled the #Damascus region for 400 years. Therefore, they possess a very detailed knowledge of the region and its minorities. They treat Arab states with dignity; they are not... See more