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Monday, November 15 2010

Essays from the Nick of Time by Mark Slouka

Slouka turns his merciless eye on the government, on the herd mentality so many Americans pay fealty to, the human cost of technology, the importance of thinking critically, and American society’s efforts to quash such thinking.

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