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Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of...

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We are all lumps, and of so various and inform a contexture, that every piece plays, every moment, i...

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Of course, in television's presentation of the "news of the day," we may see the Now...this" mode of...

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Neil PostmanAmusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

With television, we vault ourselves into a continuous, incoherent present.

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Neil PostmanAmusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

Reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and ...

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You see the first thing we love is a scene. For love at first sight requires the very sign of its su...

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Roland BarthesA Lover's Discourse: Fragments

You see the first thing we love is a scene. For love at first sight requires the very sign of its su...

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Roland BarthesA Lover's Discourse: Fragments

Do you follow the wrestling? Most people think it's illegal, but you can watch it there. Ruby and Py...

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To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened...

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Umberto EcoSix Walks in the Fictional Woods

Agriculture must mediate between nature and the human community, with ties and obligations in both d...

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Wendell BerryBringing it to the Table: On Farming and Food

When facing society, the man most concerned, the man who is to do the most and contribute the most, ...

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The problem then with Jesus is that he cannot be removed from his time and transplanted into our own...

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Bart D. EhrmanDid Jesus Exist?: The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth

Now, Richard Pryor was unique. Many misunderstood his humor. He lit up the hallway, but they didn't ...

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The only people who can ever put ideas into context are people who don't care; the unbiased and apat...

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The world is better served by syncretic economists and policymakers who can hold multiple ideas in t...

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When there is no news, we will give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.

You judge people in the context of their time, not in the context of ours.

I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship.