Apr 15, 2020 · (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.

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Dec 1, 2024 · President Donald Trump in England in 2018 (Official White House Photo by Andrea Hanks) “ Those Europeans who shake their heads in disbelief at President-elect Trump and his success would do well to consider things, including themselves, from an American and, even more so, a global point of view.” W hile Americans have lived every day with the consequences of the Biden presidency, Europeans ...

Merion West is an online magazine of politics and culture. by Johnny Payne Essay-“In her exquisitely physical Rodeo, Sunni Brown Wilkinson takes her place among those superb modernists, early and late and post, who recognize the combination of mutability and continuity across poetic epochs that is a key to lyric’s continuing strength and ...

Jan 17, 2025 · “This mainstream acceptance raises a key question: If vitrification can preserve embryos and organs like kidneys, why wouldn’t similar principles apply to brain preservation of cryonics?” To be clear, for the purposes of this discussion, there are three important terms worth noting: biostasis ...

Feb 12, 2025 · Kip Knott is a writer, poet, teacher, photographer, and part-time art dealer living in Ohio. His writing has appeared in Best Microfiction 2024, Gettysburg Review, Poet Lore, Vestal Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and The Wigleaf Top 50.

Feb 13, 2025 · “Engagement is inseparable from hope and motivation. The top quartile of students most engaged in school are more than four times as likely as the least-engaged students to believe they have a great future ahead of them.” Unfortunately, the problem of disengagement is not limited merely to ...

Jan 19, 2025 · Andrew Foster “In her exquisitely physical Rodeo, Sunni Brown Wilkinson takes her place among those superb modernists, early and late and post, who recognize the combination of mutability and continuity across poetic epochs that is a key to lyric’s continuing strength and relevance…”. Martin Heidegger offers a path to understanding the power of imagery within lyric poetry in his essay ...

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Jan 16, 2025 · (James Lindsay in Arizona in 2022/Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia) “Recently, however, James Lindsay has sparked a contentious debate on this topic by disparaging postliberals as ‘woke right.’