Breakfast with Hamilton Nolan, and Zito Madu on sports superstitions| Flaming Hydra
The future wasn’t just foreseeable but foreseen; some selected and presently relevant excerpts from Richard Hofstadter’s 1965 essay on The Paranoid Style in American Politics as “time is forever running out.” There is a style of mind, not always right-wing in its affiliations… I call it the paranoid| Flaming Hydra
On Thursday, July 17, 2025, my friend Hussain Ahmed sent me a Daily Mail article written by Sonya Gugliara headlined, “Straight white author’s career finally takes off after he tells woke publishers he’s gender queer Nigerian.” The piece describes the exploits of literary hoaxer Aaron Barry, a Vancouver-based| Flaming Hydra
Since it is impossible in my experience to condense a life or the love that one has for that life into literature, I would like to refuse the chance at attempting the impossible or the desire to make a life mean something beyond the fact and miracle of its own| Flaming Hydra
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Parker Molloy is the author of The Present Age, a newsletter about the intersection of media, politics, and culture.| Flaming Hydra
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