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Chris Augusta

Chris Augusta is an artist living in Maine.

Biographical details as published on March 27, 2025.

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Articles

24 pieces
  1. Walking and Thinking

  2. Letter: On “Our Life-World, Its Enemies, and the Enduring Power of Common Sense”

  3. Letter: Reflecting on “These People All Know Each Other”

  4. Letter to the Editor: In Defense of Rereading

  5. What Type of Religion Is Wokeness?

  6. Dr. Fauci and Our Pandemic of Distrust

  7. Roberto Calasso: A Man Possessed

  8. From Revolting Masses to Revolting Elites

  9. A Brief History of Nothing (Part IV): Wars of the Spirit

  10. A Brief History of Nothing (Part III): From Dada, to Dachau, to Davos

  11. A Brief History of Nothing (Part II): Something for Nothing

  12. A Brief History of Nothing

  13. George Orwell: from Hell to Salvation

  14. Allan Bloom at Harvard, a Lesson Reverberating through the Years

  15. The Coronavirus and a “Coup d’état” of the Brain

  16. When We Oversimplify Darwin

  17. Maurizio Cattelan and When Art “Ridicules Art Itself”

  18. Can We Read Moby Dick?

  19. Aeschylus’ “Prometheus Bound”: Where Is Meaning to be Found?

  20. Poetry and Modernity

  21. The Secular Age Fails to Escape Its Roots

  22. Nietzsche’s First Man: Ralph Waldo Emerson

  23. On Nihilism and the Power of Nothing

  24. A Reply to Matt McManus: The Last Man

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