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Jerusalem

William Blake
An oldy but a goldy. Poet, philosopher, artist and mystic, William Blake offers us a vision of the struggle to build a peaceful and just society, an early skirmisher in the fight against capitalism. Check out those 'dark Satanic Mills.'

books

Mr. Lonely

Zoë Hu Dissent Magazine
Some have suggested that young men are drawn to Andrew Tate because they suffer from a dearth of social contact. Yet men go to Tate not to alleviate loneliness but to intensify it.

books

This Is More Than a Legal Read

Bill Fletcher, Jr. Portside
The focus of the book is on Dominic Ongwen, a former soldier in the cultish army known as the Lord’s Resistance Army in northern Uganda. Ongwen had been kidnapped by the LRA when he was nine years old and transformed into a soldier and criminal...

books

Dangerous Chimera

Colin Kidd London Review of Books
Reviewer Kidd considers a new history of the idea of liberty by one of the UK's most esteemed political philosophers.

poetry

Day 570

Anita Barrows
California poet Anita Barrows writes: "When the genocide began I started writing daily notes. I felt the urgency to document these tragedies in a whole poem every day, and that is what I will do until the genocide ends. I intend to keep writing."
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