Esquire raps with Kenneth Anger, the filmmaker. Along with many people of greater accomplishment and repute, I’m a fan of Anger’s—not for his films, so much (although they’re compelling)—but because he’s the Forrest Gump of Darkness. Identify some naughty in the 20th Century, and you’ll find him somewhere nearby.

Consider, also: when someone quotes Heidegger, or refers to him, outside an academic paper, I suspect immediately that person is a pretentious asshole. Heidegger suffers the Ayn Rand/Jesus problem: Heidegger per se?—fine. The problem is his fans suck. Their adoration borders upon obsessive, and they often use others’ familiarity with his work as a benchmark to identify peers who’re the problem. I mean, the man was an unrepentant Nazi, and they make him annoying. Get your Heidegger on:

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