My grandparents/great-grandparents were Mensheviks, who fled Stalin, Hitler, and the Nazi invasion of France. They were both endangered for their politics and (some) escaped because of those politics. I interviewed my father for Aufhebunga Bunga about his book on these relatives.

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Lenin, Mensheviks, Nazis; fleeing Moscow, Berlin, Paris; arriving in America, lost letters, torture, and death.

This family history is a remarkable 20th century tale. Alex Gourevitch talks to his father, Peter Gourevitch.

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Before the age of Scrolling Alone, we took a rich social life for granted. Is today’s socialism just ideology without the social?

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'The cultural studies revolution has been a disaster for the humanities and social sciences, but enormously successful in obfuscating growing social inequality and inflating the importance of culture wars.'

catherine liu in Issue #2, 'Deinstitutionalized'
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Are left-liberal 'harm reduction' policies actually reducing harm?

Listen to Dustin Guastella on the 'Zombieland' of Philadelphia and the contradictions of harm reduction: buff.ly/3UmVIUu

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Dino lays out arguments against a harm-reducing, libertarian approach: What conditions do human beings need to flourish?

The Philadelphia neighborhood Kensington—nicknamed “Zombieland”—is a symbol of the age of “harm reduction” policies in liberal cities.

Is the war on the war on drugs the solution to addiction or part of the problem?

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Dino Guastella says both Left and Right lack a politics that looks beyond the 'Bare Life.' That's Georgio Agamben's concept of how the sheer biological fact of life is given priority over the way a life is lived. What about human flourishing?

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Harm reduction won't fix it. What’s the point in “reducing harm” if we have no intention of, nor belief in, enriching life?

/407/ Beyond Bare Life ft. Dustin Guastella bungacast.podbean.com/e/407-beyond-b…

🚨New Episode🚨

- Censorship & repression in Brussels & Berlin.
- The incorporation of right-populism.
- Responses to your questions on cultural production, mental health, political emotions, 20thC ghosts, & more

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🚨 In this week's Bonus Bonus:🚨
— What happens when European nat-cons become part of the establishment?
—How do we kill the 👻 of the 20th century?
—Is ❤️ a dangerous political emotion?

+ more!

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🚀 What does the growing girth of the Big-Dick-Industrial-Complex say about these anxious times? 🚀

And is there a political/economic component?

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Is the Big Hard Dick (BHD) really central to our collective social imagination, or are the Freudians just eternally too obsessed with penises?

For Patreon subscribers: SIZE QUEEN NATION ft. Christie Offenbacher & Benjamin Fife of
Damage Magazine

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'Oprah Winfrey's mediatic power is that she brings a protestant preacher's emotionality to television.'

— catherine liu talks Oprah, the performance of suffering, and more in the latest 'Emotion Sickness.' 😭

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