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A Secret History of the IRA: Gerry Adams and the Thirty Year War

by Ed Moloney

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Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West

by Catherine Belton

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Kenogaia: A Gnostic Tale

by David Bentley Hart

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Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino

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These deranged takes, and their unnerving proximity to online monetization, are case studies in the way that our world—digitally mediated, utterly consumed by capitalism—makes communication about morality very easy but makes actual moral ...more

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“John Steinbeck once said that socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”
― Ronald Wright, A Short History of Progress

tags: american-dream, misattributed-to-john-steinbeck

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“He knows that you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy.”
― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

tags: truths

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