/lit/ - Literature

>>15409432
>Free from the invisible social constraints of academic norms — the trends and fashions of academic study — young Chinese scholars are writing with wild abandon about Sidney Sheldon, slave narratives, Emily Dickinson, Margaret Mitchell, “Chick Lit,” and Michael Chabon. I met a scholar studying Neil Simon and Toni Morrison, a combination for which I can’t imagine a supportive dissertation committee here.

>>14710984
>abandoned gold standard
>to lower inflation
1oz of gold in 1971: $35
1oz of gold in 1999: $200
1oz of gold in 2020: $1600
it is not gold which is losing its purchasing power

>>14145679
>i think that andrew breitbart is an idiot
>therefore you are an idiot and everything you said is false

>>13730457
>there are people who unironically believe this is the future