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Curtis White

Curtis White is a novelist and social critic. His most recent book is "Transcendent: Art and Dharma in a Time of Collapse," published by Melville House.

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The TED logo stands illuminated on stage in the Community Theater in Vancouver, Canada. (Lawrence Sumulong/Getty Images)

The cult of expertise comes for Buddhism

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Smoke from Southern California wildfires drifts through the L.A. Basin, obscuring downtown skyscrapers in a view from a closed Griffith Observatory on Thursday, Sept. 17, 2020 in Los Angeles, CA. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

California’s karmic debt to the world

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Student Debt (Getty Images)

Student debt and the end of the liberal arts dream

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The world is shattered by the coronavirus pandemic (Getty Images/Salon)

Our “happy gloom”: Living a good life in a dying world

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Ripped up and worn a hundred dollar bill (Getty Images)

The pandemic is making us question the connection between work and money. That’s a good thing

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Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump (AP/David Becker/Reuters/Rick Wilking/Photo montage by Salon)

This is an oligarchy, not a democracy: Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, and the real reason why change never seems to come

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(AP/Reuters/Photo montage by Salon)

Southern whites will not surrender: They believe their own Hobby Lobby, Cracker Barrel psychopathology

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Jeff Bezos, Tim Cook (Reuters/Gus Ruelas/Robert Galbraith/Salon)

Apple and Amazon’s big lie: The rebel hacker and hipster nerd is a capitalist stooge

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Christopher Hitchens (Twelve Books)

Christopher Hitchens’ lies do atheism no favors

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