Why the West Is Terrified of Death
An Archaeologist’s Reckoning with Science, Faith and the Inevitable.
My dad was a surgeon. His favourite saying? “Life is a sexually transmitted, inevitably fatal, disease.”
This is about confronting the inevitable.
The end of all…. **this**
Zohran Mamdani puts the social in socialism and rides a blue wave to victory. He’s got the MAGA faithful sweating in their too-tight pleather hammer pants. Trump called New York’s newly elected mayor Zohran Mamdani a “little communist,” and a “communist lunatic.” For Ted Cruz he’s a “literal, Karl Marx-quoting, America-hating jihadist.” Mamdani’s biggest crime? …
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