Our Monkey’s Paw
Essay by Georgia | There is an age-old warning to be careful what you wish for. That advice has inspired a myriad of literary works. An archetype of this theme is “The Monkey’s Paw,” written in 1902 by W.W. Jacobs
read moreEssay by Georgia | There is an age-old warning to be careful what you wish for. That advice has inspired a myriad of literary works. An archetype of this theme is “The Monkey’s Paw,” written in 1902 by W.W. Jacobs
read moreEssay by Raw Egg Nationalist | For ordinary folk, the savage violence they were prepared to unleash on one another was, in a very obvious sense, simply a reflection of the broader violence and hardship of daily life, especially on the frontier. Life in the backwoods usually meant poverty, certainly in monetary terms
read moreEssay by Tailgunner Joe | The fusing of mental healthcare and elite power has a long history. In the Soviet Union, as a way to isolate and eventually purge regime enemies, psychologists and other mental health professionals would be tasked by the state to “cure” supposedly deranged individuals
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read moreEssay by Jenny Holland | The humble sacrifices of ordinary man have been written out of history, along with the male’s enormous tenderness towards his female counterparts
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read moreEssay by A.J.R. Klopp | In the 1960s Duke Power had a problem. For years it had systematically discriminated against its black employees, refusing to promote them beyond manual labor
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read moreEssay by Appalachian Man | Strolling with my girl through one of the once-great American metropolises, the truth glares at me from all sides: We are living in the Fall
read moreEssay by Jay K Chesterton | The most unsettling attribute that human beings share with chimps—that most people don’t like to consider to exist within themselves—is the rudimentary drive for primate dominance
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