2024年12月28日 · (A Statue of George Washington in Boston/Wikimedia Commons) “ Similarly distinct from the regular life-world is the world of academic theory, in which, as in the fantasy world, theoretical constructs are often divorced from any dependency on practical outcomes.” O n November 3, 2024, two days before Election Day 2024, the prominent journalist and podcaster Megyn Kelly was called to the ...

2025年1月3日 · Johnny Payne is the arts editor at Merion West. Johnny is a poet, novelist, playwright, and essayist. He has worked extensively in Latin American Studies, especially literature under dictatorship and Quechua oral tradition.

2024年12月30日 · “Of course, the question of whether healthcare should be socialized is only a small piece of my general disagreement with [Walter] Block on political economy. Still, it is a vivid enough example to stand in for all the bigger questions.” W alter Block has many ideas that seem strange and extreme.. I do not just mean that many of his ideas seem this way to a democratic socialist like me ...

2024年12月31日 · “Reviving a Merion West tradition, I present here a list, though not a ranking, of some of my favorite articles that Merion West has published this year.”. R eviving a Merion West tradition, I present here a list, though not a ranking, of some of my favorite articles that Merion West has published this year. Although a hopelessly subjective exercise, it provides an opportunity to highlight ...

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2024年12月27日 · Lalesh Aldarwish “The hand drops a fresh globe/into the scoured skull, secures breath upon/the hemispheric nostrils and stands back,/appraising…”

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6 天之前 · “The deregulation of air travel and other sectors of the economy in the 1970s was (and continues to be), in my view, a profound mistake. While controversial, I assure you that this contrarian take is not (entirely) a product of big-government sentimentalism from a …

2020年4月15日 · (AP Photo/Michael Probst) “I recently met up with an old friend, a staunch Marxist, at a traditional Viennese café to catch up and talk about our political differences.

2025年1月28日 · (A state of Christopher Columbus in Minnesota/Wikimedia Commons) “ Vice President Harris’s phrase could be described as the animating principle behind the whole modern project, as well as much of what we think of as progress: The more we unburden ourselves from nature and history, the more human ideas can determine what can be.” I n his essay last month, “Our Life World, its Enemies ...