RT @anon_opin: Roadrunner cartoons peel back the curtain and show us the dystopian nightmare of corporate capitalism. Why does Wiley Coyote…
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How do we know what we want, what TO want? Milan Kundera, who would have been 95 today, on the central ambivalences of love and life themarginalian.org/2015/10/16/mil…
"Many of the women who took lovers, plotted at court, and spent fortunes decorating their châteaus were also deeply devout Catholics." —David A. Bell on the pre-revolutionary French aristocracy go.nybooks.com/4ar64t9
Born on this day in 1596, René Descartes helped pivot humanity from the age of superstition to the age of science. His 12 timeless tenets of critical thinking: themarginalian.org/2016/03/31/des…
