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The Truth About Modern Therapy || Bad Therapy by Abigail Shrier
In virtually every way that can be measured, Gen Z’s mental health is worse than that of previous generations. Youth suicide rates are climbing, antidepressant prescriptions for children are common, and the proliferation of mental health diagnoses has not helped the staggering number of kids who...
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Disobedience: Rachel x Rachel
A woman returns to her Orthodox Jewish community that shunned her for her attraction to a female childhood friend. Once back, their passions reignite as they explore the boundaries of faith and sexuality.
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Everybody Hates It Comes at Night
It Comes at Night is a 2017 American psychological horror film written and directed by Trey Edward Shults. It stars Joel Edgerton, Christopher Abbott, Carmen Ejogo, Kelvin Harrison Jr., and Riley Keough. The film focuses on a family hiding in a forest as the Earth is taken over by a highly...
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Big Little Lies Has a Secret
Big Little Lies is a show on Max based on the book by the same name. It is ostensibly a murder mystery. Big Little Lies stars Kidman, Reese Witherspoon, Shailene Woodley, Laura Dern, and Zoë Kravitz as five women in Monterey, California, who become embroiled in a murder investigation. Alexander...
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The Watchers Had Potential
The Watchers is a 2024 American supernatural horror film written and directed by Ishana Night Shyamalan in her directorial debut, produced by M. Night Shyamalan, and based on the 2021 novel by A. M. Shine.[5][6] It stars Dakota Fanning, Georgina Campbell, Olwen Fouéré and Oliver Finnegan, and...
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Get Out is the MOST OVERRATED Movie of All Time
Get Out was heralded as the second coming in early 2017 and currently sits on many of the all time great horror and thriller lists. It is shockingly overrated. Get Out is a 2017 American horror film written, co-produced, and directed by Jordan Peele in his directorial debut. It stars Daniel...
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I think I get The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is directed by David Fincher and starring Rooney Mara and Daniel Craig. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a 2011 mystery thriller film directed by David Fincher from a screenplay by Steven Zaillian. It is based on the 2005 novel of the same name by Stieg Larsson....
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Why T.S. Eliot Hated Hamlet
T.S. Eliot notoriously trashed Hamlet as an "artistic failure". Was he right?
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The Bear Gets Back Into Gear
Season 3 Episode 8
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The Best Episode Yet of The Bear
Season 3 Episode 6 & 7
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The Bear is The Best Show Ever || Season 3 Episode 1
Season 3 of The Bear has been released. Seasons 1 & 2 were amazing. I can't wait to watch how the story unfolds.
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354 Men Revisited || Was I wrong?
There was a pretty severe backlash to my Men review with many dislikes and angry comments. Here I revisit the controversial movie.
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353 Chaos by Tom O'Neill || Charles Manson and the CIA
Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties is a book decades in the making. Over two grim nights in Los Angeles, the young followers of Charles Manson murdered seven people, including the actress Sharon Tate, then eight months pregnant. With no mercy and seemingly no...
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351 Men by Alex Garland || What's the Deal With Men?
Men is written and directed by Alex Garland and starring Jessie Buckley and Rory Kinnear. Description: A young woman goes on a solo vacation to the English countryside following the death of her ex-husband.
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350 Noise by Daniel Kahneman, Oliver Sibony, and Cass Sunstein || Human Cacophony
Review of Noise by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, and Cass R. Sunstein Imagine that two doctors in the same city give different diagnoses to identical patients—or that two judges in the same courthouse give markedly different sentences to people who have committed the same crime. Suppose that...
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349 The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer || Of Monsters
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer No other powerful empire ever bequeathed such mountains of evidence about its birth and destruction as the Third Reich. When the bitter war was over, and before the Nazis could destroy their files, the Allied demand for unconditional...
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348 Steve Jobs vs Elon Musk vs Walt Disney || Greatest Impact
Steve Jobs revolutionized communication and entertainment technologies while marrying art and tech. Elon Musk practically invented broadly adoptable electric cars and space travel. Walt Disney changed how we tell stories while advancing media tech. Who was most important in recent history?
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347 Race Marxism by James Lindsay || The Race is On
Race Marxism exists to tell the truth about Critical Race Theory in unprecedented clarity and depth. Across its six weighty chapters, Lindsay explains what Critical Race Theory is, what it believes, where it comes from, how it operates, and what we can do about it now that we know what we're...
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346 Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson || X Æ A-Xii & Exa Dark Sideræl
When Elon Musk was a kid in South Africa, he was regularly beaten by bullies. One day a group pushed him down some concrete steps and kicked him until his face was a swollen ball of flesh. He was in the hospital for a week. But the physical scars were minor compared to the emotional ones…
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345 Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark || Life Finds a Way
What sort of future do you want? This book empowers you to join what may be the most important conversation of our time. It doesn’t shy away from the full range of viewpoints or from the most controversial issues—from superintelligence to meaning, consciousness and the ultimate physical limits on...
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344 Capitalist Punishment by Vivek Ramaswamy || ESG Crush
A Wall Street cartel has quietly seized control of the American economy, and they are forcing governments and businesses to bow down to their political agenda—using your money to do it. Read to the End Substack Email: [email protected] Follow on X
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343 Manhood by Josh Hawley || What is a Man?
The American Founders believed that a republic depends on certain masculine virtues. Senator Josh Hawley thinks they were right. In a bold new book, he calls on American men to stand up and embrace their God-given responsibility as husbands, fathers, and citizens. Read with me: Aspiring Authors...
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Indian X-Men – Salman Rushdie x Midnight’s Children
We take a look at Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie. Read to the End Substack Buy Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie holds the literary world in awe with a jaw-dropping catalog of critically acclaimed novels that have made him one of the world's most celebrated authors. Winner of the...
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Homo Machina – Amir Husain x The Sentient Machine
Artificial “machine” intelligence is playing an ever-greater role in our society. We are already using cruise control in our cars, automatic checkout at the drugstore, and are unable to live without our smartphones. The discussion around AI is polarized; people think either machines will solve…
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words – George Orwell x 1984
A startling and haunting novel, 1984 creates an imaginary world that is completely convincing from start to finish. No one can deny the novel’s hold on the imaginations of whole generations, or the power of its admonitions—a power that seems to grow, not lessen, with the passage of time. Read to...
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At Least Slaves Know They Are Not Free – Nassim Nicholas Taleb x The Bed of Procrustes
The Bed of Procrustes, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, takes its title from Greek mythology: the story of a man who made his visitors fit his bed to perfection by either stretching them or cutting their limbs. It represents Taleb’s view of modern civilization’s hubristic side effects—modifying humans…
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I am no man, I am dynamite – Friedrich Nietzsche x Ecce Homo
Ecce Homo is an autobiography like no other. Deliberately provocative, Nietzsche subverts the conventions of the genre and pushes his philosophical positions to combative extremes, constructing a genius-hero whose life is a chronicle of incessant self-overcoming. Written in 1888, a few weeks…
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337 Bible: The Book of Genesis || It Begins
We take a look at the first book of The Bible, The Book of Genesis, covering creation of the world and promises to the Israelites. Once Upon a Vampire Read with me: Aspiring Authors [email protected] Finally on Twitter @KawFee_Haus Read new articles at KawFee Haus Korner on Substack...
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336 Please Stop Helping Us by Jason L. Riley || Race Relations
We take a look at Please Stop Helping Us by Jason L. Riley. In Please Stop Helping Us, Jason L. Riley examines how well-intentioned welfare programs are in fact holding Black Americans back. Minimum-wage laws may lift earnings for people who are already employed, but they price a disproportionate...
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12 13 22 || All This Week on Tuesday: Dave & Elon, Sam Bankman Fried Arrested, Cambridge Dic Defines Woman
Dave Chappelle invited titan Elon Musk up on stage in San Francisco and the reaction was unexpected anywhere except San Francisco. The Notorious SBF is finally arrested to ensure he can evade Congressional questioning. And the Cambridge Dictionary changes the definition of the word woman. Once…
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335 Emma by Jane Austen || Tie That Knot
We take a look at Emma by Jane Austen. Emma, by Jane Austen, is a novel about youthful hubris and the perils of misconstrued romance. The novel was first published in December 1815. As in her other novels, Austen explores the concerns and difficulties of genteel women living in Georgian-Regency...
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12 6 22 || All This Week on Tuesday: Canada Kills, The Twitter Files, and ChatGPT Takes Our Jobs
Covering the news for the week of December 6, 2022. Canada has a perverse incentive to kill its citizens, Elon Musk releases the Twitter Files, and ChatGPT is the next step in conversational AI. Once Upon a VampireRead with me: Aspiring [email protected] on Twitter...
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334 The Tyranny of Big Tech by Josh Hawley || PART 2
This is the second part of our look at The Tyranny of Big Tech by Josh Hawley. Once Upon a VampireRead with me: Aspiring [email protected] Finally on Twitter @KawFee_Haus Read new articles at KawFee Haus Korner on Substack Consider supporting the show on Patreon See what I'm…
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11 15 22 || All This Week On Tuesday: FTX, Protests in Iran, and Dave Chappelle
There are several important stories for this week including the collapse of FTX, protests in Iran, and Dave Chappelle on Saturday Night Live. Once Upon a VampireRead with me: Aspiring [email protected] Finally on Twitter @KawFee_Haus Read new articles at KawFee Haus Korner on...
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333 The Tyranny of Big Tech by Josh Hawley || PART 1
We take a look at The Tyranny of Big Tech by Josh Hawley. This is Part 1. Decades of unchecked data collection have given Big Tech more targeted control over Americans’ daily lives than any company or government in the world. In The Tyranny of Big Tech, Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri argues that...
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332 Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky || Ethical Chastity
We take a look at the infamous Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky. First published in 1971 and written in the midst of radical political developments whose direction Alinsky was one of the first to question, this volume exhibits his style at its best. Like Thomas Paine before him, Alinsky was…
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331 False Positive & Cabinet of Curiosities || Male and Female Storytelling
We take a look at the new horror/thriller False Positive and the Guillermo Del Toro show Cabinet of Curiosities. Read with me: Aspiring [email protected] Finally on Twitter @KawFee_Haus Read new articles at KawFee Haus Korner on Substack Consider supporting the show on Patreon See...
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330 Kanye West and the Limits of Communication || Hear Ye, Hear Ye
Kanye West made some discriminatory remarks on Twitter and has been roundly condemned. Once Upon a VampireRead with me: Aspiring [email protected] Finally on Twitter @KawFee_Haus Read new articles at KawFee Haus Korner on Substack Consider supporting the show on Patreon See what…
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329 A Conflict of Visions by Thomas Sowell || In The Land of the Blind
We take a look at A Conflict of Visions by Thomas Sowell. Controversies in politics arise from many sources, but the conflicts that endure for generations or centuries show a remarkably consistent pattern. In this classic work, Thomas Sowell analyzes this pattern. He describes the two competing...
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328 The Sexual Revolution Shackles || Dog Catches Car
We take a look at the article by Louise Perry, "I'm 30. The Sexual Revolution Shackled My Generation." Read the article HereOnce Upon a VampireRead with me: Aspiring [email protected] Finally on Twitter @KawFee_Haus Read new articles at KawFee Haus Korner on Substack Consider...
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327 Licorice Pizza & The Bear || Good Eats
We take a look at Licorice Pizza by Paul Thomas Anderson and the new drama on Hulu The Bear. The story of Alana Kane and Gary Valentine growing up, running around and going through the treacherous navigation of first love in the San Fernando Valley, 1973.Carmen Berzatto, a brilliant young chef…
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326 Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond || Western Civ Revisited
We take a look at Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond.In a Pulitzer Prize-winning book, the author dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors he feels are responsible for history's broadest patterns. Reissue.Once Upon a VampireRead with me:...
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325 For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway || Best 100 [#69]
We take a look at For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway. In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war there for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Three years later he completed the greatest novel to emerge from “the good fight” and one of the foremost classics of…
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324 San Fransicko by Michael Shellenberger || PART 2
This is the second part of our look at San Fransicko by Michael Shellenberger. Michael Shellenberger has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for thirty years. During that time, he advocated for the decriminalization of drugs, affordable housing, and alternatives to jail and prison. But as…
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From Genesis to Economics to Nietzsche, Jackson Keats applies civilizational knowledge on the road from Zero to One. Every week the show tackles works from authors including Thomas Sowell, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, and Ernest Hemingway.
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