what if you became a Spinozan

I have to say that it seems like all the online discourse on the subject was just a tempest in a teacup. It's a decent translation overall, although some individual word choices seem questionable, these moments were not very frequent.

It's not as good as Fagle's, but as these go, not bad at all.

One would hope you're leveraging the $100 annual member plus subscription to the MR so you get that juicy 50% off books. Got most of these last summer, but still haven't had a chance to read them.

One can easily sympathize with his aim of showing the seedy underbelly of liberalism but there are so many problems with this book, some factual problems too. He denies that the Jacobins are liberals, which is pretty crazy. Too many issues to list here.

Another day, another non-sequitur from Ahbitbuh. An imam of the Sufi school, I see. It's all starting to come together.

A good portion of what people have had to say is just delusional and fanatical. Social media unfortunately encourages both groupthink and the need to pontificate on whatever the topic of the hour is.

You don't need to have an opinion on everything, especially if you know fuck all about it.

Notice there's no actual engagement with what historians are actually writing. Just pig-headed pontificating from people who have never even studied the relevant material in question.

One of the lacunae in this book is that it neglects to mention Nicholas II's deep anti-semitism. Hasegawa does mention, in passing, the anti-semitic hysteria around Mendel Beillis, but not the facts surrounding Nicholas' complicity in it.

Don't wait! This book is absolutely fantastic. Personally I found it much more enjoyable than the Canterbury Tales, which is really just a fan fiction of the Decameron.

I need to read this again.. good reminder.

Lost disappointed me so much tbh. I really enjoyed the first two seasons back in the day, and I remember it falling off a cliff in season 4 or 5.. horrendously so. Probably haven't watched the show in well over a decade. About time for a rewatch.

It's usually On the Road and Dharma Bums that are most frequently cited, but Desolation Angels shows you've really delved into Kerouac beyond the surface level stuff. I still haven't finished all of his books, I have the Subterraneans started from a few weeks ago.

Kerouac is problematic, as people like saying these days. Of course that doesn't mean the baby should be thrown out with the bath water. Kerouac is definitely a contradictory figure in some ways, just like his now more well known and appreciated friend, Bill Burroughs.

A fellow Kerouac enjoyer I see, not very common at all, especially on the left. I enjoy his books, I don't think they're the pinnacle of literature or anything, but many of them are pretty good and underrated.