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Microchips Turn Sand Into Mind
But like Stanford and the Third Reich, microchips were the brainchild of an eugenicist
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Virginia Heffernan
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7 Things Mark Meadows Staked His Career On
So Mark Meadows, Trump’s morally broken onetime chief of staff, has pleaded not guilty. He did not, he says, participate in an illegal scheme to try to…
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Virginia Heffernan
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What if You Just Hate Making Dinner?
A big hello to all the new subscribers who’ve joined up over the last week! Welcome! Serving up a piece dedicated to all people who not only don’t like…
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Virginia Heffernan
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The Existential Non-Crisis on College Campuses
Humanities classes are happiness classes
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Virginia Heffernan
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Evopsych Delusions
The Declaration of Independence is a diabolically brilliant piece of prose. This first sentence, especially, works like sorcery. It manages to style the…
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Virginia Heffernan
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If only Rudy's dad could see him now
Harold Angel Giuliani, the father of Rudy, once served 18 months at Sing Sing for robbing a milkman at gunpoint for $128.82. Harold gave a fake name to…
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Virginia Heffernan
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THIS is what makes my head spin
Yes, I was hoping for a nice round hundo, but 91 felony charges against the former president is still impressive. Especially since the indictment record…
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Virginia Heffernan
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Magic + Loss
Magic + Loss
Tech and politics for English majors.
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