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08/06/2025

He silkscreened soup cans and turned Marilyn into myth. Andy Warhol didn’t reflect pop culture; he was pop culture. Explore how he blurred the lines between art, commerce, and celebrity: https://casacarlini.com/andy-warhol-the-pop-art-icon-who-turned-celebrity-and-consumerism-into-high-art/

08/06/2025

Knut Hamsun’s genius was undeniable, but so was his moral blindness. A sharp look at the Nobel laureate’s warped vision of truth, fascism, and the cost of artistic arrogance. A must-read. 🔗 https://casacarlini.com/the-dreamer-and-the-despot-knut-hamsuns-warped-vision-of-truth/

08/03/2025

Philosopher, economist, and forgotten genius, Frank Ramsey reshaped logic and probability before dying at 26. Cheryl Misak brings his brilliant, brief life into focus. Read more: https://casacarlini.com/calculated-risks-cheryl-misak-on-the-life-and-mind-of-frank-ramsey/

08/01/2025

Israel can bomb Syria, Lebanon, even Iran in hours, but Gaza, a tiny strip under 24/7 surveillance, has “taken two years”? This isn’t war. It’s erasure. The goal was never Hamas. It was the people. https://casacarlini.com/the-longest-war-what-israels-siege-of-gaza-is-really-about/

07/31/2025

Who was the real Vladimir Nabokov? Writer, scholar, lepidopterist, or all three, folded into one? Dana Dragoiu pursues the enigma. https://casacarlini.com/catching-the-butterfly-dana-draganoiu-on-the-elusive-vladimir-nabokov/

07/30/2025

Edward Said refused the comfort of belonging. For him, exile was a position of critique, a way to see empire, culture, and identity from the margins. The Unsettler, indeed. https://casacarlini.com/the-unsettler-edward-said-and-the-power-of-unbelonging/

He infiltrated the Western canon only to detonate it from within, a Palestinian exile who became America’s most dangerous professor. No thinker of the late 20th century proved more subversive,...

07/29/2025

How did Otto Weininger, a Jewish philosopher who rejected Judaism, become a twisted influence on Hi**er? Allan Janik’s Hi**er’s Favorite Jew unpacks this chilling legacy. https://casacarlini.com/product/hitlers-favorite-jew/

07/28/2025

Karl Popper taught us that real science thrives on doubt, not dogma. His legacy? A fortress against pseudoscience. https://casacarlini.com/karl-popper-the-philosopher-who-built-a-fortress-for-science/

07/28/2025

Ever read a John Ashbery poem and thought, Wait, what? That was kind of the idea. A reflection on his enduring influence. https://casacarlini.com/john-ashbery-the-poet-who-refused-to-explain-himself/

He wrote poems that sounded like nobody else’s and often left readers wondering what, exactly, they had just read. John Ashbery was a poet of paradoxes. He was at once...

07/27/2025

What happens when a historian refuses to toe the line? Ilan Pappé took on Israel’s founding myths, and paid the price. Read how he rewrote the past and reshaped the debate on Palestine.
https://casacarlini.com/the-unrepentant-historian-ilan-pappes-crusade-for-palestines-past/

07/27/2025

A socialist who despised workers. A pacifist who admired dictators. A playwright who mistook theater for scripture. George Bernard Shaw’s genius lay in weaponizing contradiction—and we’re still unraveling his legacy today. 🔗 https://casacarlini.com/the-unreasonable-man-george-bernard-shaws-contradictions-and-genius/