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Vocalist Rhiannon Giddens (2nd R) performs with Dirk Powell, Hubby Jenkins, Jason Sypher, and Jamie Dick at the Newport Jazz Festival August 5, 2017 in Newport, Rhode Island. The Newport.

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20 years after

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I don't have much to say about the 20th anniversary of 9/11, so here are some thoughts from my friend Steve the Meterologist: Entirely personal reaction: very much not feeling the 9/11 commemoration.If you are, not saying in any way you are wrong. It was an...
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“I came in at the end. The best is over”

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The latest member of the Intellectual Horse Paste Web to announce their resignation at Bari Weiss's ShakeShack to pimp their own forthcoming social media grifts is very upset that his story isn't getting national coverage from non-wingnut networks: This guy voluntarily quit his job at some...
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The sociopathic style in American politics

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The hysterical reaction on the right to Joe Biden's eminently moderate vaccine mandates provides a kind of textbook example of what I will call the sociopathic style in American politics. I'm alluding here to Richard Hofstadter's famous essay on the paranoid style, and, following his usage,...
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