Posts tagged Joe Meno

Cameron’s Book Round-Up: 2023, third part

We write these on the off-chance that people might click through on the link, go to bookshop, and buy the books (doing so supports us a little bit, and local bookshops a bit more; we like that fact more than we like giving Amazon any more money than we have to.) However, there are two things I’d like to point out and suggest that people donate to help with: the specific state of the internet archive, and the more general case of supporting the rights of transgender people.

Ex-Child Prodigies and Broken Promises: The Millennial Meta-Narrative of Coping with Failure

I think that this resonates with many of us because we were given such reason to hope for the future when we were younger and it didn’t pan out. We were born in the “End of History,” when western liberal democracy had triumphed over the Soviet Union, and the future was supposed to just be an asymptotically perfecting version of the present with no huge revisions.