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Merion West is an online magazine of politics and culture. by Johnny Payne Essay- “[Anne-Marie] Turza shows dramatic flair for summoning our attention, that of a town crier or carnival barker who was handed a surprise announcement at the last possible minute, and now must sell its premise before a skeptical gathered audience with all the bravado ...
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About Us “I want Merion West to be such that no one can ever see an article and know before even opening it what it will say.” – Erich J. Prince, Editor-in-Chief. Merion West was founded in 2016 to bring a new and independent voice to the current media environment, which has become too polarizing and sensationalist.Merion West is nonpartisan and …
The Curious History of Tijuana Bibles - Merion West
Feb 5, 2021 · Known over the years by terms as varied as “bluesies,” “jo-jo books,” “eight-pagers,” and, eventually, “Tijuana bibles,” these relics were independent comic booklets that flew in the face of intellectual property. Often parodies of established works and illicitly sold, their infamy stemmed from the parodies’ explicit nature.
James Lindsay: How Critical Studies Led to Today’s Turmoil
Jul 12, 2020 · Image via New Discourses “This is an attempt at a social, cultural, and political revolution.” O n July 9th, Kevin Turner had a conversation with Dr. James Lindsay discussing the social and cultural movement that has gripped the nation since the death of George Floyd in late May. An author and mathematician by training, Dr. Lindsay has written six books spanning a range of subjects ...
The Arts - Merion West
Merion West is an online magazine of politics and culture. by Johnny Payne Essay-“What stands out in Nakanishi is that she possesses an acute awareness of the root poetic traditions of her native islands and brings them forward with respect while also being influenced, as she herself professes, by poets such as Californian Gary Snyder—whose verse ...
Nietzsche’s First Man: Ralph Waldo Emerson | Merion West
May 21, 2019 · Emerson understands human thinking as the absorption of sense experience and its transformation by individual human consciousness, by what he calls “the fire of his mind.”. Ideas are not merely human projections but experience transformed by the fire of thought; thinking is not so much the generation of ideas as it is the combustion of ...
The Real Truth of Rubin “Hurricane” Carter - Merion West
08/06/2019. Image via NPS.gov. “To DeSimone and his acolytes, two cold-blooded murderers were freed. To our system of justice, two persons, their innocence always in question, were unfairly tried and convicted.”. T here are few homicide cases that engender as much controversy and divisiveness as that of the late Rubin “Hurricane” Carter ...
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Verification Standards. Merion West works diligently to ensure that all claims are properly fact-checked and examined for accuracy. Our editorial team conducts a line-by-line review of each article to ensure that each claim is correct and properly sourced and/or hyperlinked. In the event of a dubious claim being made by an interviewee, a Merion ...
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Merion West is an online magazine of politics and culture. ZP Shumway “What stands out in Nakanishi is that she possesses an acute awareness of the root poetic traditions of her native islands and brings them forward with respect while also being influenced, as she herself professes, by poets such as Californian Gary Snyder—whose verse, like hers, is thoroughly immersed in the natural ...
The Many Problems with Marxism - Merion West
Apr 15, 2020 · The Labor Theory of Value. Let’s start with two central Marxian concepts: exploitation and surplus value. Marx saw the latter as a distillation of the former, an “increment or excess over the original value” invested in production, as described in Das Kapital. That increment was assumed to be a function of labor.