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May 2025

The opinion that I have that probably annoys the most amount of people (Bob Dylan)
The opinion that I have that probably annoys the most amount of people has two components.
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RIP Marcel Ophuls
A French-German director named Marcel Ophuls died towards the end of last week.
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Peter Weiss' The Aesthetics of Resistance
‘When things are beyond rational comprehension…that’s the very time we must apply our reason. It’s our only weapon’. —Trotsky in Exile
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Being a not-boring cyclist
Being a cyclist is a lot like being a Marxist.
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Adam Shatz, Franz Fanon, Palestine
You probably first heard Adam Shatz’s name on Twitter, where people were annoyed at an article that was published in the London Review of Books, in…
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March 2025

Michael Mann, Multipolarity
With the story of the American frontiersman, the movement of people and small capital west in a process of territorial expansion effectively over…
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Publication: Short Story
A short story I wrote: ‘With Thanks to Odin O’Sullivan, Probably Your Uncle Explains Lukács’ is appearing in the first print edition of fallow. Like…
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Bertolt Brecht: 'Is Communism Exclusive?'
Unreal essay which appears seemingly by the by in a series of notes on his play Man Equals Man
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