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This is a collection of curious articles for students who have taken POS 101 - and would like to keep reading and thinking about some of the issues we discussed (plus some we missed).
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Tuesday, June 21, 2016

Bradbury: Between Dystopia and Hope

11:05 PM | Posted by Ivelin Sardamov | | Edit Post
A hopeful piece on one of my favorite topics – the dystopian imagination. Here is a brief quote that sums it all up: “As with Orwell, Bradbury recognised that tyranny is at its most potent when it’s superficially most benevolent, when it dresses up coercion and censorship in kindly, caring language.” On my laptop, the article ends with a stark pro-Brexit ad. If this is targeted advertising, I guess they need to fix their algorithm – for the next campaign.
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Saturday, June 18, 2016

How Frankenstein’s Monster Became Human

1:59 AM | Posted by Ivelin Sardamov | | Edit Post
Artistic masterpieces are sometimes born under the most unusual of circumstances. This piece describes the peculiar writers’ workshop that 200 years ago gave birth to Mary Shelley’s literary masterpiece – when she was not yet 19.
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Saturday, June 4, 2016

We Have Become an Idiocracy

7:46 AM | Posted by Ivelin Sardamov | | Edit Post
Joel Klein is the in-house satirist of Time Magazine. But in this piece he is only half-joking...
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