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Claire Berlinski.
ClaireBerlinski
Pompeo is a perfect example of this thing that just baffles me. He owes America *everything.* His grandparents immigrated from dirt-poor regions of Italy at the turn of the C19th.
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I'm aware that these are not new questions. “Why does God12 give light to one who is in misery, and life to those whose soul is bitter ... ‘He destroys
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This is the most astonishing story you'll read in the 21st century. Navalny--having been poisoned by the FSB--gets on the phone, calls the FSB--on their landline--and tells them he's "Maxim
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I know I speak for everyone in saying how much I hate this pandemic. But I hate this pandemic more than I've ever hated anything. I've been lucky. Obviously, I
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I discovered something that may be useful to humanity. I've been in lockdown in my apartment for weeks, which of course this is not ideal for one's mood--still less when
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On the one hand, this is glib, QAnon isn't just a rebranded Nazi cult. https://www.justsecurity.org/72339/qanon-is-a-nazi-cult-rebranded/ On the other, it's too close for comfort, and something has gone terribly wrong with
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By the way, are you, like me, an American living abroad? If so, you probably understand, in ways more visceral than Americans at home, all the ways--small and large--that it
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This is a clear, accessible explanation--in the Economist, paywalled--of the paradox of Covid-19, and the reason no one should be reassured by the overall low case fatality rate: to the
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Generally I don't think feel-good stories belong in newspapers. The point of a newspaper is to convey the news, not make you feel good. But this feel-good story is an
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Here's an article that discusses the cult dynamics of "wokeness." The question, "What is a cult?" is notoriously hard to answer, and this isn't a particularly serious effort: https://newdiscourses.com/2020/06/cul
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