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Outer Space Is Down
Where the heavens go when they can’t be up.
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Choosing Penelope
A case for marriage.
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The TV Child
The unique and dangerous structure of minds molded by TV.
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Why I am Christian again
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The Disenchantment of the Modern World Is a Myth
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The New Renaissance Will Be Techno-Rural
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The Spiritual-But-Not-Religious Horsemen of the Apocalypse
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High Agency to Do What?
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Physicist Claims Sagrada Familia Is a Portal to Interstellar Space
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High Agency to Do What?
Seeking agency is a local status trap.
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The New Renaissance Will Be Techno-Rural
Stealing fire from Silicon Valley and bringing it to your home town.
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The Disenchantment of the Modern World Is a Myth
The ‘meaningless cosmos’ was manufactured by those who could not resolve their own contradictions.
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I Want to Be a Hero
But the death of place makes it impossible.
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Harry Potter and the Dark Lord of the Third Reich
The creation myth of modernity.
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The Religious Impulse to Return to the '90s
Sacred and profane time.
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The Sea Mammal Theory of Writing
Fish out of water... and then back in again.
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