Welcome to Bookmarker!

This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

Source code on GitHub (MIT license).

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Petrashevsky Circle

In the spring of 1849, Dostoevsky was arrested, tried, and sentenced to Siberian prison and exile for his association with the subversive Petrashevsky circle.

—p.xv Introduction (vii) by Donald Fanger
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casuistry

is he constructing a casuistical theory to excuse his own failures?

—p.ix Introduction (vii) by Donald Fanger
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anodyne

Although he is often depicted as an anodyne moralist, a precursor to multicultural liberalism, King was actually a visionary whose politics became increasing radical in tandem with the movement he led.

—p.115 Are socialists pacifists? Aren’t some wars justified? (104) by Jonah Birch
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valence

But the sheer volume of spending tells us little about the political valence of government action.

—p.16 Isn’t America already kind of socialist? (12) by Chris Maisano
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succor

as Barber says, Trump gives "succor to the demagogues-in-waiting" like Le Pen.

Financial Times editor Lionel Barber

—p.114 The Glory Days Are Over (107) by Nicole Aschoff
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