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The movie tries so hard to put forth a sweeping treatise on the paradox of a Black bodybuilder, to be a study of Black masculinity.
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Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2025
Fitzgerald first encountered Kaczynski’s treatise in July 1995, shortly after Kaczynski anonymously mailed the typewritten manuscript to The Times and The Washington Post, demanding its publication in exchange for his promise to stop killing people with package bombs.
—Charles Homans, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2025
In his treatise, Carr presented a strikingly expansionist view of the FCC, suggesting it be deployed on everything from slowing Chinese AI development to funding Elon Musk’s Starlink.
—Steven Zeitchik, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Mar. 2025
His books have been translated into French, Spanish, German, Italian, and English; in the United States, at least one of them—a 2014 treatise on Martin Heidegger—was published by a company run by the white nationalist Richard Spencer.
—James Verini, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2025
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Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2025
Fitzgerald first encountered Kaczynski’s treatise in July 1995, shortly after Kaczynski anonymously mailed the typewritten manuscript to The Times and The Washington Post, demanding its publication in exchange for his promise to stop killing people with package bombs.
—Charles Homans, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2025
In his treatise, Carr presented a strikingly expansionist view of the FCC, suggesting it be deployed on everything from slowing Chinese AI development to funding Elon Musk’s Starlink.
—Steven Zeitchik, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Mar. 2025
His books have been translated into French, Spanish, German, Italian, and English; in the United States, at least one of them—a 2014 treatise on Martin Heidegger—was published by a company run by the white nationalist Richard Spencer.
—James Verini, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2025
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“Treatise.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/treatise. Accessed 13 Apr. 2025.
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treatise
noun
trea·tise
ˈtrēt-əs 
: a book or article examining a subject carefully and completely
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