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The EVILution of Communism Workshop, Session 3 Communism is a religious view that has evolved and adapted over the last two centuries, including right up to the present day. Understanding the developments and threats in our present world requires understanding what Communism really is, especially in its Marxist variants, and how it has developed and changed over the years. In response to this need, James Lindsay of New Discourses held a four-lecture workshop series on the EVILution of Communism in Dallas, Texas, at the start of August 2024. In this third lecture in the series, Lindsay continues discussing the development

Mary Harrington, Feminism Against Progress (Forum, 2023). A review. “Anybody who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without the feminine ferment. Social progress can be… View Post The post A Feminist Against Modernity appeared first on Areo.

When my wife was in graduate school, it gave her enormous pleasure to go to class with her arse so sore from my spankings that I stayed on her mind… View Post The post Feminist in the Streets, Chauvinist in the Sheets: Politics and the Bedroom appeared first on Areo.

If it is sometimes hard to be a woman, being a man is hardly a walk in the park either. Men die earlier than women, are more likely to be… View Post The post Defining Masculinity appeared first on Areo.

In this episode of our Two for Tea podcast, editor-in-chief Iona Italia talks to writer Louise Perry about her new book, The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex… View Post The post Against the Sexual Revolution: An Interview with Louise Perry appeared first on Areo.

Bell Hooks (1952-2021): The Cultural Politics of Love“My students tell me, we don’t want to love! We’re tired of being loving! And I say to them, if you’re tired of being loving, then you haven’t really been loving, because when you are loving you have more strength.”– bell hooks.It might seem strange for a regular white guy like me to want to mark the passing of bell hooks, a black feminist icon. It might even seem inappropriate, because ostensibly her work is not about me, or my kind of experience. Yet I do feel moved to share why people like me — and here

left to right: Charlie Taylor, Mai Hua, David Fuller, Jerry HydeFor this international Men’s Day, I was asked to take part in a discussion about my friend Jerry Hyde’s new film ‘Meetings With Remarkable Men’.Jerry is a rock star psychologist who’s dedicated his life to running men’s groups, where men come together, every two weeks, some for as long as twenty years, to talk about their lives with other men.The film, made with female director Mai Hua, is an intimate portrait of some of the men from these groups. They talk about the most personal details of their lives, their emotional landscapes,

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