Posts
All the articles I've posted.
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Lord Dorwin
In Asimov's Foundation, Hardin's recording of Lord Dorwin's embassy shows that days of polished, self-assured diplomatic language can reduce to empty air once vague flattery and qualification are stripped away—exposing assurance without substance.
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Crime & Incarceration
The piece argues that incarceration rates chiefly reflect sentencing and policy choices rather than crime levels; crime has fallen while prison populations swelled, and the number of beds in a jurisdiction does not mechanically raise or lower offending.
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The Fellowship of Suffering
Vivian Gornick's Atlantic essay traces how Natalia Ginzburg's wartime losses shattered a lifelong emotional armor and forced her into improvised mutual dependence—learning to ask and give help among strangers—until solidarity in catastrophe became a lasting lens for seeing neighbors with justice instead of fear or contempt.
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Syd Mead
Syd Mead advises creatives to ground their work in context and commercial rationale, stay versatile rather than narrowly linear, remain fiercely observant of the world, and treat ideas—not technique alone—as what turns demonstration into narrative.
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2017
Sculptor Shirazeh Houshiary reflects on how hard it is to truly perceive reality—we habitually assume understanding while infinity and ambiguity keep showing the limits of what we see.
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Une Noix
TateShots follows French artist Valérie Mréjen—filmmaker and novelist—through the Aligre market as she sources vintage postcards whose anonymous scenes become dry, language-driven films about memory, awkwardness, and the laughable grain of ordinary life.