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Aeon Magazine
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Aeon Magazine
Sep 11, 2019
The Real Sexism Problem in the Discipline of Economics
Nothing we can do will make the world more…
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Aug 1, 2019
Being and Drunkenness: How to Party Like an Existentialist
Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre…
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Jul 15, 2019
What Big History Says About How Royal Women Exercise Power
Across time and place, royal women wielded…
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Jun 30, 2019
Why Is Psychedelic Culture Dominated by Privileged White Men?
If psychedelic substances are a portal…
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Jun 22, 2019
Put Yourself in Vichy France: Do You Resist or Collaborate?
The Nazis have occupied France. It’s easy…
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Jun 20, 2019
Medieval People Were Surprisingly Clean (Apart From the Clergy)
People in the Middle Ages took great…
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Jun 19, 2019
Reactionaries Love It, But Country Music Has a Progressive Heart
American country music is not just…
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Jun 6, 2019
Who Really Owns the Past?
Cultural heritage is an ideal imposed from above. It’s time to listen to…
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May 30, 2019
What the Idea of Civilisational ‘Collapse’ Says About History
The idea that the Maya or Easter…
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May 28, 2019
How the Inkas Governed, Thrived, and Fell Without Alphabetic Writing
The Inka empire was open-ended…
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