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Voix de glace/Voice of ice
(bilingual poetic prose, Louis Guillaume Prize, Punctum Books, 2025)
Dec 17, 2025
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A discussion with Lionel Shriver about social manias
(including her latest novel, "Mania")
Sep 10, 2025
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Book Bans and Literary Greatness
I receive periodic emails from the Authors’ Guild, of which I am a member, to “fight book bans.” One such email from June 21st 2024 informed me that at…
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Apr 7, 2025
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How Does One Become Woke?
Apr 16, 2024
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My Experience with Equity at Oberlin College
Jun 25, 2024
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“Wrong” Bodies, Promethean Shame and the Impersonality of the Machine
Jul 15, 2024
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Nature, Technology & Alienation
May 19, 2024
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Why I Left the United States
Mar 18, 2022
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Technology, the Myth of Progress (“Progressivism”) and Racism
May 13, 2024
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American Identity, Geography, Marginality, Hollywood Misfits and Queerness
I came to the US in 1991 from a very nationalist world.
Dec 29, 2024
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TikTok, Water, Energy, the Romanian Elections, -ESCU, Putin and Trump
On November 25th the Romanians woke up to the stunning news that a man many of them had never heard of won the first round of their presidential…
Dec 11, 2024
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Activella in vacation
In 2021 I created a character, Activella—an American student in social justice and CRT at the University of BS (It was before I discovered that she has…
Nov 21, 2024
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The Barbarian and the Techno-Progressive: a Dialectic
As someone who grew up in a non-Western country and immigrated to the US immediately after the fall of Communism at a time when the differences between…
Aug 17, 2024
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The Olympics Controversy + a video on a book about wokeness
Like everybody else, I have been witnessing the fight, triggered by the Opening of the Olympic Games, between the experts in Christianity and the…
Jul 29, 2024
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“Wrong” Bodies, Promethean Shame and the Impersonality of the Machine
or The Making of the Post-Human
Jul 15, 2024
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My Experience with Equity at Oberlin College
Oberlin College, one of America’s most reputed liberal arts colleges, has become famous, or rather, infamous, for the lawsuit initiated against it in…
Jun 25, 2024
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Nature, Technology & Alienation
Gender Ideology and the Mental Structure of the Puritan
May 19, 2024
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Technology, the Myth of Progress (“Progressivism”) and Racism
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May 13, 2024
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