"The 20-year conflict was a boon to the military-industrial complex, at the cost of untold lives."

"If you read conservative media recently you’d think the biggest problem in the world was so-called “cancel culture.”

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s decision to lift all pandemic restrictions this week came as a shock to even his own health advisers. His critics, from California to the Oval Office, called the move reckless, and potential 2022 challenger Beto _...Read More_

NEW DELHI — India is now ground zero in a struggle over the instrument that so enhanced its democracy but now threatens to undermine it: the Internet. In late December, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government proposed new rulesempowering _...Read More_

A painting by Dana Schutz included in this year’s Whitney Biennial in New York has been criticized for perceived racial insensitivity. The painting depicts the mutilated face of Emmet Till, a 14-year old boy brutally murdered in 1955 after _...Read More_

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[https://bluelabyrinths.com/2021/01/10/on-the-political-significance-of-the-abolition-of-time-in-literature/](https://bluelabyrinths.com/2021/01/10/on-the-political-significance-of-the-abolition-of-time-in-literature/) >"Let us begin with a question: when, precisely, did literature’s well know deployment of non-linear time begin? We know the _...Read More_