My Year in Reading, 2025
Challenging stale histories through fresh narratives, and how new worlds are formed.
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My Year in Reading, 2024
A tour through the Social Novel, Victorian(-ish) literature, and Weimar Autumn.
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My Year in Reading, 2023
From the nested puzzles of a Parisian flat to the utopian vistas of a terraformed Mars.
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Imagining the Ideal Reading Tracker App
An effective reading tracker would not only provide a chronological list of titles read, but would uncover the manifold associations of influence and interest that are constantly being formed from the books I read.
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Acting Like an Ancestor
Combating the racial and ecological damage of capitalism through a long-term revolutionary patience.
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The Age of Extremes
As tempting as it is to fantasize on what could have been, the historian’s task, Hobsbawm quips, is to analyze what was.
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Spiritual Mergers & Acquisitions
Does Christianity truly constitute an “alternative spirit” to capitalism?
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Unmasking Mammon
My review of Haymarket’s A People’s Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics, for The Bias magazine.
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Los Angeles Intellectuals
Lurking beneath the sunny veneer of culture-capitalism is a lineage of critical work that, as Mike Davis argues, emerged as L.A.’s distinctive intellectual contribution: the genre of noir.
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Aquinas and the Role of the Metaphysician
Thomas’ “metaphysics,” if indeed it can be called that, is neither an overarching rationalist system nor a purely sense-oriented empiricism.
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My Year in Reading, 2016
Classics, novels, intellectual histories, philosophical biographies, nightmares, criticisms, and more.
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