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On Little Liberties An interesting news clip from the 1980s has been making the rounds showing initial reactions by Californians to the implementation of a law that reduced the legal maximum blood alcohol content for operating a motor vehicle from 0.15 to 0.10 (still well above today’s 0.08). In the clip, we are treated to Read more

As sadness has lost its cultural cache, the cult of psychopathology has continued to grow, and in the transition we’ve lost sight of a terribly important condition: melancholia.… Continue reading Admitting Melancholia → Read more

Just as it was for the surrealists of the early 20th century, serious political work has been subsumed by the instinctual and libidinal. Is it surprising, then, that self-satisfaction has become the reward sought by the most politically extreme? … Continue reading Declining Violence → Read more