THE HEGELIAN DISPATCH

Did Simón Bolívar Predict Maduro’s Kidnap 200 Years Ago?

The Bolivarian Revolution, Neural Networks, and What America Actually Wants From Venezuela

Jan 4 • Aly Salem

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The Dialectics of ‘New Year New You’

Why we celebrate the new year in January

Jan 1 • Aly Salem

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December 2025

Democracy Before Democracy?

On Victorian Fanfiction, Norman Yokes, and the 4,000-Year-Old Roots of Democracy

Dec 27, 2025 • Aly Salem

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July 2025

The Snail That Launched a Thousand Ships

The Phoenicians’ Purple Pipe Dream That Built an Empire then Broke It

Jul 1, 2025 • Aly Salem

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May 2025

Did the Younger Dryas Yeet Our Ancestors’ Megaliths Into the Sea?

Paleoclimatology and Underwater Archeology Reveal How History is Basically Groundhog Day But Wetter

May 24, 2025 • Aly Salem

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Myths, Memes, and the Semiotics of Cultural Production

The survival of the wittiest, not the fittest

May 16, 2025 • Aly Salem

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Gilded Youth vs. Jacobins

Or, why revolutions always fail.

May 8, 2025 • Aly Salem

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April 2025

How Many Tariffs Does It Take to Resurrect a Dead Factory in Ohio?

Nixon, Bretton Woods, Fiat Currencies, and the New World Order

Apr 30, 2025 • Aly Salem

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When Jesus Took the Wheel

How Christianity took over the Roman Empire

Apr 22, 2025 • Aly Salem

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Is Civilization Itself a Byproduct of Climate Change?

Göbekli Tepe and the dialectics of climate determinism

Apr 4, 2025 • Aly Salem

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WATCH: The War on Beauty

The Orwellian Glow-Down: When Beauty Became a Sign of Bad Taste

Apr 1, 2025 • Aly Salem

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March 2025

Buttercup the Horsie Goes to the Glue Factory

The circle of capitalist life, from pasture to paste.

Mar 26, 2025 • Aly Salem

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