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6 Jan 2025 2 minute read 2 comments Vladan Lausevic $0.01
TLDR James Bloodworth's article, "Saving the West, One Polemic at a Time," critically examines Douglas Murray, a prominent right-wing intellectual and author. Bloodworth highlights Murray's rise to fame, controversial rhetoric, and framing of Western...
28 Dec 2024 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei $0.07
Previously, I wrote about 自由人. When you understand that 自由 equates to freedom, you will be able to access the beauty of this high-frequency, high-utility idiom: 自由自在. I spotted this idiom pretty often during my stay in Japan. This was seen...
24 Dec 2024 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.01
“If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for?”Ai Weiwei What are the "Rock, Paper, Scissors" of the arts? When artists play "Rock, Paper, Scissors," what tools do they use? Beauty? Sorrow? Subterfuge? Denial? No...
17 Dec 2024 1 minute read 1 comment cryotosensei $0.03
Anne Fadiman discussed “the paradoxically liberating power of restriction”, but I never understood what she meant. This year, I returned to my wife’s hometown in Kumamoto with two young kids in tow. Just a few years ago, I would have felt quite res...
13 Dec 2024 4 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic $0.01
TLDR Yezid Sayigh's "Anatomy of a Military Fall" from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Annie Slemrod's "Syria Faces Huge Humanitarian Challenges as It Begins Post-Assad Era" from The New Humanitarian examine the fall of Bashar al-A...
11 Dec 2024 1 minute read 2 comments Vladan Lausevic $0.01
TLDR A report by The New Humanitarian titled "Targeted aid killings: How Israel starved a population and sowed chaos in northern Gaza" examines the severe impact of Israeli military actions on humanitarian operations in Gaza. The investigation highl...
10 Dec 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic $0.02
TLDR Steve Chapman's article Tariffs Are Trump's Tool to Consolidate His Hold on Power, published in The UnPopulist, critiques Donald Trump's tariff policies as economically harmful and politically manipulative. Chapman argues that Trump uses tariff...
8 Dec 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic $0.01
In a recent reflection on Sweden's 30-year EU membership, Andreas Johansson Heinö, one of Sweden's leading liberal opinion makers and a member of the market-liberal think tank Timbro, highlights the significance of the 1994 referendum. Heinö desc...
5 Dec 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic $0.02
TLDR An article by Hugo Bueno for The Unpopulist critiques Elon Musk’s inconsistent commitment to free speech, focusing on his handling of censorship orders in Brazil. Musk resisted Brazilian Justice Alexandre de Moraes’ orders to suspend accounts s...
29 Nov 2024 1 minute read 2 comments Vladan Lausevic $0.02
TLDR Artificial intelligence (AI) holds great promise for predicting and preventing human rights violations by analyzing patterns, social media, and economic data to identify early warning signs. AI can also monitor ongoing abuses through tools like...
