professors in the US would refuse to spend so much time face-to-face with students. They would complain that the Oxford approach is too labor intensive, too demanding on their precious time.

I did well and thus got exempted from the dreaded viva voce—the intense oral exam that (for many students) serves as follow-up to the written exams.

(1) EVERYTHING WAS HANDWRITTEN—WE DIDN’T EVEN HAVE TYPEWRITERS.

What appealed to you about the concept?I’ve always been attracted to the transgressive. I tried to bring as much transgression to “Seinfeld” and “Curb” as I could, but there were still rules. With “Borat,” I was encouraged to break rules, to offend, to not worry about the results. I found that to be liberating.Can you do great comedy without transgression?There are gentle comedians who can be very successful. But if you want to cut through, if you want people to lose it, to lose control, then I think you need to go to the forbidden places.

You don’t see working class humor much anymore, except in standup.

Ken Alexander worked for 20 years at California Typewriter as the shop’s principal technician on manual typewriters. But these days he’s working three days a week at Berkeley Typewriter, “though that number will likely go up,” he said.

Tom Furrier, who owns the Cambridge Typewriter Company in Massachusetts, has sold several typewriters to Mr. Cidoni and said that high school and college students have become a staple of his business.

Edward Derbes earned his B.A. in Rhetoric from UC Berkeley last year. He still resides in Berkeley, and can often be found on the front steps of his apartment building reading Kierkegaard and Nelson Algren.

Joe Banuelos, its third owner, has run the shop for nearly twenty years. Joe’s brother, Jesse Banuelos, who works as a typewriter technician at the store

Herbert Permillion, who runs California Typewriter Company on San Pablo Avenue, said he was also at a loss to explain the trend.  “I’m almost in awe to some extent, but then I can sort of understand that some people tend to reach back and some people want things a little simpler.”

California Typewriter Company was opened as California Typewriter on Shattuck Avenue by  Glenn Tuttle in 1949. Permillion bought the shop in 1981 from its second owner, Joseph Mundy, at its second location on University and moved it to its current location on San Pablo in 1986.

Jesse said that he sold a typewriter for $350 just minutes before this reporter’s arrival. Most of the restored typewriters in the store sell from between $295 to $400.

A fascination with vintage typewriters also accounts for the recent rise in sales, said Joe. In particular, people in Japan are buying typewriters built in the 1920s, 30s, and 40s. The store will charge $250 to repair a classic Olivetti, but that machine can be resold for $1,000 in Japan, said Joe. “They buy them because they are antique. There’s a big demand because they are part of American history.”

“I happen to be a person that knows how life works,” Trump remarked in 2017, explaining why he trusts his instincts. This is the fatalistic kernel within all instantiations of social Darwinism: everything you see around you—­all the irrationality, all the hierarchy, all the pain—­is just the way of the world. The only way we can debunk this claim is to create a world that works differently.

Now we can look back and see the festering presence of social Darwinism lurking throughout the whole postwar era, like a monstrous Forrest Gump. The United States’ enduring attachment to empire and racial domination helped ensure the survival of social Darwinist ideas, just as the imperialist expansion of the late nineteenth century gave the ideology its initial purchase. In turn, these ideas, repackaged and sanitized by popular psychologists and libertarian economists, eventually helped to sanctify inequality as the foundation of the neoliberal order—­to create a dog-­eat-­dog political economy that only strengthened the appeal of social Darwinism as an explanation of how society operates.

In a 2013 lecture, the social psychologist and soi-­disant centrist Jonathan Haidt railed against the tendency of “both sides” to deny “inconvenient truths.”

The neoliberal economist Gordon Tullock shared his admiration for Wilson’s “excellent” book. Tullock’s own foray into “bioeconomic theory,” The Economics of Non-­Human Societies, argued that economic modeling could help explain how nonhuman animals like ants managed complex social coordination without central planning. “Social insects and other social species normally only have an economy, but no government,” Tullock wrote. “Humans think that government is a necessary precondition for the function of the economy, thus this proposition may seem bizarre.” This was precisely the premise that the most radical neoliberals sought to use sociobiology to question.

In the Seventies, the evolutionary-­biological approach to the study of human behavior grew even more popular. Its leading exponents were Hamilton’s Oxford colleague Richard Dawkins—­who has called Hamilton “the greatest Darwinian of my lifetime”—­and the Harvard entomologist E. O. Wilson, who recalled his imagination being “captured” by Lorenz at a pivotal point in his graduate studies.

W. D. Hamilton, one of the most influential evolutionary biologists of the second half of the twentieth century. Hamilton helped develop new theoretical tools that allowed scientists to postulate a genetic basis for a range of complex social behaviors. Among these behaviors, in Hamilton’s view, was genocide, which was a natural if morally regrettable response to population growth among a competing “tribe.”

After World War II, when the United States’ embrace of the anti­fascist struggle raised the possibility that its own apartheid system would be the next target, a vanguard of white nationalists and Nazi sympathizers rallied around a private philanthropy called the Pioneer Fund, which had been established shortly before the war. The fund’s grants helped ensure that scientists who shared the founders’ enthusiasm for the Third Reich’s “selective breeding” policies could pursue their work under an all-­American aegis.

Reasoning along similar lines, the historian Carl N. Degler asserted in 1991 that the struggle against Nazism had at last left social Darwinism “definitely killed, not merely scotched.”

In Social Darwinism in American Thought, the 1944 book that popularized the term, Richard Hofstadter writes that the ideology, at least “as a conscious philosophy,” had “largely disappeared” in the United States by the end of World War I, thanks to its uncomfortably Teutonic overtones.

last October, Jonathan Chait argued that the social Darwinist commitments Trump shares with the rest of the Republican Party distinguish it not only from the Democrats but “from conservative parties in other industrialized democracies.”

first months of his second reign

I can’t help but suspect that Trump’s own explanation is closest to the mark: “I’m a very instinctual person,” he told Time magazine in 2017, “but my instinct turns out to be right.” One need not agree with the latter judgment to recognize that Trump’s account of himself rings true. He values the irrational quality of his decisions as an end in itself.

La Machine à écrire is a three-act play written by French dramatist Jean Cocteau, premiered on 29 April 1941 at the Théâtre Hébertot in Paris. It has been translated into English as The Typewriter by Ronald Duncan.[

Which keys are those? It's possible that they slow down keys which would otherwise risk penetrating the page. If they're on period, comma etc then this is likely the case.

The destroyed typewriter was recovered from the Jackson Park Lagoon on June 7.

Gallia County in Ohio was formerly known as “Little Cardiganshire”. Welsh was spoken here widely, and remained the county's most common second language until 1970.

Margaret Mary (Clancy) Sugrue, who managed the home.

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Hedges traces this alarming erosion of democratic principles back to the 1971 Powell Memo, a pivotal document that laid the foundation for the pervasive influence of corporate America over political processes.

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Ralph Miliband

Trump pledged as a presidential candidate to keep America out of “stupid endless wars.” But he also vowed to prevent the Islamic Republic from obtaining a nuclear weapon.

The U.S. attack was an “extraordinary turn for a military that was supposed to be moving on from two decades of forever wars in the Middle East,” our colleagues Helene Cooper, Eric Schmitt and Julian Barnes wrote.

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The strikes were the first operational use of the GBU-57, Mr. Hegseth said. It is a 30,000-pound guided bomb that contains the explosive power of approximately 5,500 pounds of TNT and is designed to attack deeply buried targets. It can be carried only by B-2 stealth bombers.

The operation used 14 GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator bombs — often referred to as “bunker busters” — with the first two dropping at 2 a.m. Sunday local time, General Caine said.

Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri, home to the B-2 stealth bombers

But neither Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth nor Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, could immediately say whether Iran still retained the ability to make a nuclear weapon. Mr. Hegseth repeated President Trump’s assertion from the previous night that the nuclear sites had been “obliterated.” General Caine did not.

Mr. Trump will doubtless claim that only he was willing to use America’s military reach to achieve a goal his last four predecessors deemed too risky.