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Politics
Don’t Try to Appease Economic Terrorists
A few days ago I received an automated text from my bank. For some reason the bank’s algorithm flagged a…
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Arts
‘Vile,’ ‘Deplorable,’ ‘Full of Lies’: Aleksandar Hemon Is No Fan of Philip Roth
What books are on your night stand? Ray Monk’s “Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius.” Oliver Sacks’s “Musicophilia: Tales of…
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Politics
Keep Your Politics Out of My Arugula
When I was 14, I was asked to fetch some baklava from the basement of the Turkish restaurant where I…
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Politics
Is Peak Climate Alarmism Behind Us?
It wasn’t so long ago that the world was truly on fire with climate alarm. In September 2019, millions of…
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Politics
If You Could Choose Your College Again, What Would You Do Differently?
If you have the opportunity to attend college, the school that you pick can end up influencing where you live,…
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Politics
Does the War Over Abortion Have a Future?
In decades past, as the calendar turned to January, the anniversary of Roe v. Wade would come into view. Abortion…
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Politics
I Was on the Church Committee. The New Republican Version Is an Outrage.
To legitimize otherwise questionable investigations, Congress occasionally labels them after a previous successful effort. Thus, the new Republican-controlled House of…
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Politics
Let’s Hack the Universe
A popular cosmological theory holds that we live in a vast computer simulation. So how hard could it be to…
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Politics
This Is How Red States Silence Blue Cities. And Democracy.
NASHVILLE — January in Nashville ushers in two forces for chaos: erratic weather and irrational legislators. Both are massively disruptive.…
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Politics
Three Reasons the Republican Party Keeps Coming Apart at the Seams
For decades, the cliché in politics was that “Democrats fall in love and Republicans fall in line.” The Democratic Party…