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Month: December 2020

Typography reveals more than just words

25 December 2020 Peter Strempel 0

The serif is a constant companion, a known quantity, a faithful servant of the words.

Fight Club (1999), 20 years later

23 December 2020 Peter Strempel 0

Not the celebration of toxic masculinity and anarchic revolt often assumed.

How we trust ‘knowledge’

20 December 2020 Peter Strempel 0

Personal experiences can lead us to invalidate even credible ‘knowledge’, and deference to other authorities can lead us to accept irrational ideas.

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979)

20 December 2020 Peter Strempel 0

Arguably the best television adaptation of a novel, still, after more than 40 years.

In the news … December 2020

17 December 2020 Peter Strempel 0

Commentary on the news in December 2020.

What does Nietzsche say to us today?

2 December 2020 Peter Strempel 0

How I came back to Nietzsche after years of having struggled with his dense prose, ambiguity, and my confusion about his meanings is, as so […]

Morrison created China trade war with ideology, ignorance, and incompetence

2 December 2020 Peter Strempel 0

Right wing populist, nationalist jingoism doesn’t play with China, even if it is guilty of the same.

Features

‘As if’ is not ‘what is’

13 January 2021 0

Typography reveals more than just words

25 December 2020 0

What does Nietzsche say to us today?

2 December 2020 0

The Vietnam War (2017): I

21 November 2017 0

Underworld USA: America unimagined

24 December 2015 0

The Key Largo hypothesis: Brooks and Huston set the noir context

7 July 2014 0

Existentialism as philosophy of action

24 June 2012 0

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