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The Emperor Doesn’t Need Clothes—You Do

Posted on: 01/21/202602/10/2026

The Emperor has no clothes because the Emperor has no shame. Only his subjects must cover themselves. The Emperor, like God, “giveth and taketh away.” What he giveth and taketh away is your importance. The […]

Politics

Who’s the Cooler Dictator?

Posted on: 04/30/202505/29/2025

The other day Trump staged a hang sesh with Salvadorian president Bukele. He got the party rolling by saying that Bukele “is a friend of mine and we went through this together and got along […]

Dystopia / Literature

The Dystopia Files: We

Posted on: 09/02/201001/01/2025

Yergeny Zamyatin’s 1921 novel We is not the first dystopian novel. There was The Iron Heel (1905) by Jack London and The Sleeper Awakes (1910) by H.G Wells, Russian translations of which Zamyatin edited. It […]

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