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What’s the Matter with Thomas Frank?

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Thomas Frank evidently has a new book out that explores the same ground as his What's the Matter with Kansas book that made his name. I've always found Frank's vision of America incredibly simplistic, to the point of being ridiculous. But I've never bothered exploring the...
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A riot of their own

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The Claremont Instutute, which has brought us such Carl Schmitts after 20 layers of carbon paper as John Eastman, is also featuring the authoritarian stylings of a Mr. Glenn Ellmers: Let’s be blunt. The United States has become two nations occupying the same country. When pressed,...
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LGM Film Club, Part 146: Not My Kid

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We lost George Segal last week. This....was not one of his best films. It's the 1985 ridiculous anti-drug TV film Not My Kid. I'd like to think that the pained expressions of Segal and Stockard Channing are not about their kid's drug use, but rather wondering...
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