#Contemporary

Took me about 5 minutes to stop rolling my eyes but I'm back now.This does rather seem to lean into elitist attitudes which are all too common with (self-defined) 'literary'
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For my philosophy of religion class today #PORcourse we will look at Daoism, particularly the disagreement between Daoists and Confucians on how to find the way (the dao). There's an
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Been thinking a lot about the Minoans. Everyone loves the Minoans, right? (If you love the Minoans, you're not going to like this thread.) So, I'm reading this book. I'm
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Did you ever feel a seismic shift in your investing journey?A true "Aha!" moment when you felt like you were seeing the matrix for the first time?It happened to me
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1/ Last year I read Moment magazine's Five Books Project (https://momentmag.com/five-books-project/) - which asks prominent Tribespeople which 5 books are essential to be an educated Jew. To put it mildly,
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Evolutionary psychology is beloved of a certain kind of "rationalist" who loves a good just-so story that casts some system that advantages him as biologically inevitable, as in, "Honey, the
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This Day in Labor History: April 2, 1937. Workers at the Hershey Chocolate Corporation in Hershey, Pennsylvania sat down on the job. Right after Flint, it seemed like the sit-down
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"White liberal academics can earn more in a day lecturing about “white privilege” than the median black household makes in 3 months"Robin Diangelo - fed.$12K a day: How white liberals
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1/al-Kāfī is a ḥadīth compendium held in high regard in Shiʿism. Its status in Shiʿi Islam is comparable to Bukhārī in Sunni Islam. Regrettably, Kāfī is insufficiently studied in Arabic,
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I'm going to live tweet my reading of this book -- starting a new thread so I don't drag anyone I tagged into the abyss. https://twitter.com/JenReadsRomance/status/1253739097996374021 Ok. So -- a
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I'm a #DemocratI'm for the Party that embraces the diversity of our land, and the uniqueness of every State. I'm about to explain why I refuse to promote those bluntly
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Hi all Bonjour à toutes/tousA big thank you to @caredunton @srdjanvucetic & @uOttawaCIPS for organising this paper-friendly conference on #5EyesCIPSMy presentation is entitled: "'s European trajectory. What's beyond the 5
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This is Olympia, by Édouard Manet. It was exhibited in the 1865 Paris Salon & caused an absolute scandal as it clearly depicted a sex worker. It was condemned as
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How ARMYs Can Avoid Becoming A Toxic Fandom Filled With Bullies: A Thread They say if you hang around someone long enough, you will either influence them, or they'll influence
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Almost all guidelines recommend SGLT2i as 2nd line in T2DM & CKD/HF if not achieving glucose control on metforminBut should “metformin 1st for all” be revisited given the latest trial
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I have many problems with this article (a thread):https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/with-its-hands-tied-the-sas-loses-bm0ptdgpr It claims UKSF do bad things “so that ordinary people...can sleep safely in their beds at night.” As analys
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