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Sam Kahn

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Sam Kahn writes Castalia, a personal blog at samkahn.substack.com about culture, writing and philosophy. Since 2024, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.

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Intellectual Journal - essays, stories, reflections.

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  1. Submitted Are Books Finished as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  2. Submitted My Insane, Degenerate, Overpowering Chess Obsession as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted How the Intellectuals Lost (Many Times Over) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted What Has Gone Wrong with Fiction in Our Era? as a story · 1 points

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