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.Geoff Shullenberger on Eddington

I wrote about Ari Aster’s ‘Eddington’ and its insights into 2025 as well as 2020: substackfwd.xyz/?url=https://c…

"Public faith in government accountability is fragile today. Not simply advocating for but actually delivering on immigration restriction is the surest way to preserve it." Read Darel E. Paul's Darel E. Paul piece in COMPACT: compactmag.com/article/how-th…

Ari Aster and Lena Dunham, both 39, are two of the most celebrated millennial directors. But based on their latest productions—“Eddington” and “Too Much”—only one is keeping up with the times. New episode of Against the Grain with Julia Yost patreon.com/posts/134594500

"To discuss the ending would be to ruin an excellent surprise. Suffice it to say that Clune is offering an original and strikingly contemporary metaphysics." Read Valerie Stivers's Valerie Stivers review of Michael Clune's book in COMPACT: compactmag.com/article/a-ques…

"In opposition to this cultural wasteland, Clune makes use of—and often seems to deliberately warp the meaning of—music from Bach to Boston, and literature from Oscar Wilde’s Salomé to the 1982 fantasy novel Nifft the Lean." Valerie Stivers in COMPACT compactmag.com/article/a-ques…

Great new episode of Blame Theory feat. Geoff Shullenberger and Ashley Frawley podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…

In conversation with Geoff Shullenberger, Ashley Frawley explains how eugenic thinking and practices emerge out of the crisis of liberalism. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…

“The post-left’s contrarian energy became an identity of its own.” Read Oliver Bateman's Oliver Bateman Does the Work piece in COMPACT: compactmag.com/article/the-de…

“Political rhetoric is easily co-opted.” Oliver Bateman Does the Work in COMPACT compactmag.com/article/the-de…

What was the “post-left”? And why did it fail so utterly? An autopsy by Oliver Bateman: compactmag.com/article/the-de…

A little-noted casualty of Trump's return to office was the "post-left," a small online faction which was already in its death throes. Oliver Bateman Does the Work writes the post-left's postmortem, and explains why it matters: compactmag.com/article/the-de…

Good piece about the fate of the post-left and also the broader challenges of public political thinking in the social media / podcast sphere compactmag.com/article/the-de…

"Looking back at the failure of the post-left, are there any lessons that can be learned? One is that rhetorical class radicalism is easy, but organizing around it is hard." Oliver Bateman Does the Work in COMPACT compactmag.com/article/the-de…

"The left-liberal moral mainstream pushes out certain potential allies by labeling them bigots at the slightest heterodoxy, but capital also punishes them if they attempt any serious anti-corporate activism." Oliver Bateman Does the Work in COMPACT compactmag.com/article/the-de…

“The president should therefore be wary of letting hawks in his administration and on Capitol Hill bait him into further shifts toward supporting Ukraine.” Read Emma Ashford’s Emma Ashford piece in COMPACT: compactmag.com/article/trump-…

“All the reasons for shifting away from the Biden administration’s plan to fund an endless war in Ukraine—and for finding ways to talk to Russia about other issues—are still valid.” Emma Ashford for COMPACT compactmag.com/article/trump-…

“It’s the job of Catholic leaders to press for limits on war-making” Catholic theologian R.R. Reno on the heated debate that has broken out since Israeli fire hit a church in Gaza, killing three. compactmag.com/article/just-w…

"There are no easy answers. But observers can reasonably fear that pursuing the goal of 'eliminating' Hamas is utopian. It will require unstinting military measures that will lead to unending civilian casualties." Read R.R. Reno's piece in COMPACT: compactmag.com/article/just-w…

“It’s the job of Catholic leaders to press for limits on war-making, even if I wish they would not indulge in hasty charges of deliberate targeting of civilians.” R. R. Reno in COMPACT: compactmag.com/article/just-w…