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If we do not understand that most people had no choice but to devote their lives to growing and cooking food, we are incapable of comprehending that the foods of Culinary Modernism — egalitarian, available more or less equally to all, without demanding the disproportionate amount of the resources of time or money that traditional foodstuffs did — a... See more
Rachel Laudan • A Plea for Culinary Modernism
The death of the public intellectual
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The Old is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born: From Progressive Neoliberalism to Trump and Beyond
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“Capitalism has won the economic war, but it has not yet won the moral war.”29
Rabbi Daniel Lapin • Thou Shall Prosper: Ten Commandments for Making Money
racist theories, prominent and respectable for many decades, have become anathema among scientists and politicians alike. People continue to conduct a heroic struggle against racism without noticing that the battlefront has shifted, and that the place of racism in imperial ideology has now been replaced by ‘culturism’. There is no such word, but it
... See moreYuval Noah Harari • Sapiens
ON LIBRARIESI was visiting public libraries and ultimately writing my dissertation about them and realizing it’s not about people engaging with kind of romanticized documents. There is some of that in the library, but it’s also compromised bodies interacting with compromised bodies, often the most marginalized people in societies and also really be... See more