Understanding the world by learning its truths.

First created for our fraternal site Cyrano’s Journal,  VIRTUAL UNIVERSITY is a space specifically devoted to materials that people should have acquired in college but for a variety of reasons, including the degradation of higher education in the United States  (making it more “vocational”), and the strong bourgeois bias that permeates all disciplines, never did.  Stay tuned, as we are still working on a very large curriculum backlog and more essays of lasting quality may be posted at any time.

EMPOWERING ESSAYS

Climate scientists warn about “methane time bomb”

MATTHEW MACEGAN—There is no reason to accept such a catastrophe fatalistically, however, as many climate scientists tend to do. The ...
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The 75 Years’ War Against the Soviet Union

STEVEN JONAS—"The Hungarian Uprising of 1956 is always presented in the West as failed revolt by democratic forces against the ...
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The Friendly Mask Of The Orwellian Oligarchy Is Slipping Off

CAITLIN JOHNSTONE—It really couldn’t be more fitting that the US now has an actual, literal torturer as the head of ...
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How Can America’s Evangelical Christians Who Favor Trump Justify Themselves?

ERIC ZUESSE— By now, it is obvious that Trump has adhered only to his promises to Evangelicals and other extremist-right-wingers, ...
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Google, drone murder and the military-intelligence-censorship complex

ANDRE DAMON—In March, Google admitted to helping the Pentagon develop artificial intelligence software to identify objects in video recordings captured ...
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Taxpayer-Funded Mercenaries Serving Both U.S. & Foreign Aristocracies

ERIC ZUESSE—The U.S. military is by far the most-respected of all institutions in America. But the U.S. military of today ...
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