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The Strange Tree and the Gluttons

David Polansky

Mar 4, 2021

Posting this one without comment. Perhaps I'll elaborate someday.

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Not Just an Idea But What Then?

When a Vance claims that America is not just an idea but a nation, he is in a literal sense merely stating a truism. But what he’s really doing is making a kind of ethical appeal: he and his political allies will represent the actual interests of Americans in a way his opponents won’t.

Jul 22, 2024 9 min read

The Man Who Wasn't There

How can we continue to evaluate the world and our place in it, when the evaluative standard itself loses its substance? How can we know if the future we are hurtling toward is good, and what should good mean anyway?

Jun 26, 2024 7 min read

Mapping the Global South

These days a similar condescension is more likely to be applied to a different end of a compass point. I am referring, of course, to the so-called “Global South”—a loose, collective term for the world’s have-nots that has recently regained currency.

Apr 11, 2024 9 min read

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