Mark Granza

May 7, 2024 | im1776.com | Mark Granza |Techno Fog |Lafayette Lee

In recent weeks, a number of US college campuses have been turned into protest encampments in the name of the Palestinian cause. Activists have occupied buildings and pitched legions of identical tents in campus quads.

Dec 1, 2023 | im1776.com | Conor Fitzgerald |Lafayette Lee |Mark Granza |Philip Voodoo

Irish politics is impenetrable to outsiders at the best of times. When the riots kicked off in Dublin last week, it was therefore inevitable that many external observers would attempt to understand what was happening by viewing events through a framework imported from the US or the UK.

Jul 11, 2023 | im1776.com | Mark Granza |Daniel Miller |Adam Winfield |Samuel Finlay

Why Jordan Peterson is Wrong to call for Restrictions on Anonymity Should Anons reveal themselves, or be forced to reveal themselves? In response to Elon Musk tweeting on Sunday that Twitter will now “protect anonymity,” Canadian psychologist and YouTube megastar Jordan Peterson, among others, criticized the decision and claimed that online anonymity enables “Dark Tetrad [personality] types.”This debate, of course, is nothing new. Nor is Peterson’s critique.

Feb 17, 2023 | im1776.com | Ugo Stornaiolo |Mark Granza

Prowess over Aesthetics: A Response to Adam Ellwanger“I don’t even lift, bro,” Adam Ellwanger announces in the title of his recent critique of right-wing bodybuilding (RWBB). A few paragraphs into his essay you can tell how true his claim is — not because the author confesses to being a little overweight, but because he mostly leans on Revenge of the Nerds cliches about training. If the author did lift, he might understand the reasons for lifting a little better.

Feb 10, 2023 | im1776.com | Daniel Miller |Lafayette Lee |Mark Granza |Techno Fog

On the concept of Gnosticism in the 21st CenturyFollowing sporadically insightful deployment over the past several years, recent clumsy attempts to polemically deploy the term Gnosticism has now pushed the term into the chasm of parody. As long as the term remained rarified, it held rhetorical value combining mystique and complexity. But with increased saturation, these elements became liabilities.