In Eyes Wide Shut, “Nicole Kidmen tells Tom Cruise…about fantasising about cheating him with some naval officer they met… His desperate attempt to catch up with her fantasy” by cheating on her ends in a failure

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I fully support the struggle of transgender people against their legal segregation. [Their] message is radically universal: it concerns us all; it tells the truth about all of us as sexual beings. I see the anxiety apropos sexual identities as universal feature of human sexuality

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The Labour Party’s election failure in the UK proves that, for the progressive left to succeed, it will have to become considerably more revolutionary. The ‘softly, softly’ approach isn’t working

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anti-Semitism as a displaced anti-capitalism (instead of blaming the capitalist system, the rage is focused on a specific ethnic group accused of corrupting the system)

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