Sep 26, 2024 · (Winston Churchill visits with Marines during a trip to Iceland on 16 August 1941/USMC Archives) “ Perhaps it is because of my own bias toward [Darryl Cooper as a friend, but the responsibility for such imprecise talk is something I place on [Tucker] Carlson, not on his interview subject.” I have, for many years, recommended Darryl Cooper’s hit podcast Martyr Made to the relative handful ...

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Jan 3, 2025 · 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.

Oct 5, 2024 · (Jürgen Habermas/photo by Wolfram Huke) “Finally, postmodernism influenced numerous intellectual variants that today are popular public philosophies, and we need to understand the intellectual foundations of such systems of thought if …

Dec 7, 2024 · “Capitalism has done much to develop the economic machinery of the modern world to the point where all of this is possible. But it is long since time to move past the capitalist phase of our history and institute something better.”

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Nov 16, 2024 · Erich J. Prince is the editor-in-chief at Merion West. With a background in journalism and media criticism, he has contributed to newspapers such as The Philadelphia Inquirer and The News & Observer, as well as online outlets including Quillette and The Hill.

Dec 17, 2024 · (Megan Rosenbloom/Flickr) “ Just as [Greg] Dember’s generation inherited modernism and felt a need to rebel, today’s younger generations have inherited postmodernism and no doubt feel the same urge to keep the sense of cultural evolution progressing.” S ometime in the early 1980s, there was a point when rock bands …

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Nov 13, 2024 · (Ruth in 1957 with Ramona and Joseph, the first two of her nine children) I can only imagine what my mother must have been feeling during the family meetings we had, the first to announce that our father, her husband, was leaving, the second, four years later, to announce that she was pregnant with a new baby.