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SHE WAS DRESSED in a cartoon-spangled onesie, while he wore a tiny denim jacket and wide-legged pants. It was a bluebird day in Williamsburg, Brooklyn…
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I hope this doesn't sound grandiose but Zelenskyy seems to be reinventing the world in front of our eyes—reimagining culture, borders, digital…
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Here’s how my week has been. Like Tucker Carlson, he is determined to teach me to appreciate the kindness of Trumpites. When a focused harassment…
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Nothing keeps sleep at bay these days like huffing up a few articles about democracy’s doomsday. Barton Gellman, America’s ranking Cassandra…
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It’s an old saw that Democrats are chronically in “disarray.” Always that word. It’s like “hearty” with “soup.” If you think disarray, you’re supposed…
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It’s not often that a sphinxlike world leader commits unilateral war crimes and a philosopher shows up to explain exactly why he’s doing it—in English…
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Payton Gendron, the only suspect in the Buffalo mass murder, identifies explicitly as a white supremacist fascist. He adds that he has neo-Nazi beliefs…
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The first surprise of the “The Jordan B. Peterson Show,” a podcast I binged this spring, is how small Jordan Peterson’s voice sounds now. True, the…
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The NYT cancelation that was a disgraceful banishment and ritual humiliation and still haunts the place: Jayson Blair. Then, for good measure, Gerald…
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'You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style'
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And embracing hope
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HOSTILE SUSPICION OF others, encompassing everything from the position of their mask to their stance on mandates, has marked this wretched pandemic from…
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