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In the first part of this series, we explored how both work and marriage are framed as private, individual matters, even though the state actively structures and enforces both arrangements. We’re...
--- This piece picks up where “The Christian Right’s Anti-Empathy Crusade I” leaves off. You might want to read that first. Stuckey’s Toxic Empathy (2024) Allie Beth Stuckey is a conservative...
--- This piece picks up where “Dangerous Feelings” left off. You might want to read that first. --- Paul Bloom’s book Against Empathy was not published by an academic publisher that would vet the...
--- 1. $1 a secret plotCritical Theory - Journalism - ArtBy Tom Pazderka --- 1. $1 Critical Theory & Burning QuestionsCritical Theory & Burning Questions is a Marxist-Leninist publication dedicated...
> “Arguing has little to do with persuasion; it is an agonistic contest of wills and wits. …that is not quite persuasion, and so we may now want to ask: What is persuasion, really? Does it even...
> But, I would argue that much of what actually characterizes everyday life — the creative moments arising out of artful improvisation on the spur of the moment — will still continue to be opaque to...