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After a year together, he told me he didn’t want to hire anyone new anymore. A lot of clients, lying, said the same. Men seemed addicted to pledging monogamy and then violating their unsolicited promise. I think the lie made them feel important, or they thought it was necessary to access something …

“I have to say that each time I visit with you, I am left wanting to see you more,” he wrote after that. I heard this sort of thing all the time, often in more ardent forms. The sentiment came from married men, single men, men who were divorced, men a few years or a few decades older than me, men w…

[...] Gay Tim made monthly site visits to Asia, I assumed for the frequent-flier miles, but his last trip had been derailed by an early-in-the-season typhoon and he'd been waylaid in Brisbane, Australia, a rerouting that would have garnered him more frequent-flier miles but that meant I was the las…

Other Marxist prognostications have been a bit more spacious and urged followers to understand similar capitalist construction projects as fallen in theory regardless of their posture in physical reality. "We begin to recognize the monuments of the bourgeoisie as ruins, even before they have crumbl…

[...] His students, I among them, were ready to be moved. But he never pushed, really. Of course, every interpreter has their own Marx, but his was a rather peculiar one. He conjured the philosophical spirit of a progresive professional liberal who might have voted for Bill Clinton and sent his off…