Month: October 2018

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D.J. Durkin, head of a toxic football program that got an unpaid student-athlete killed, was inexplicably given his job back after a period on administrative leave. This went about as well as you’d expect: In a sudden turn of events, University of Maryland President Wallace Loh fired football coach DJ Durkin on Wednesday night, less […]
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The New Jim Crow

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Brian Kemp’s Georgia isn’t just making it harder for African-Americans to vote, it’s intimidating voters with prosecution: Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp, the chief elections official in the state, is a pioneer of present-day voter suppression. Mr. Kemp has a record of making it harder for people to register to vote, and more difficult […]
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The Haunting of Hill House

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I have a review at Strange Horizons in which I try to sum up my deeply conflicted reaction to Netflix’s adaptation of Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House. Netflix’s miniseries adaptation of The Haunting of Hill House, by Mike Flanagan (who wrote most of the series’s ten episodes and directed all of them), throws most […]

SS vs. CV

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First in what may be a new series at the National Interest: Submarine vs. Aircraft Carrier! This article traces the course of the balance of power between aircraft carriers and submarines.  This bala

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What Else Is There to Say?

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If it seems like I’m silent for long periods of time it’s because sometimes I’m at a loss for words. Today’s issues make pop culture notes and snarky entries about how stupid “The Federalist” is seem small and unimportant. Then there’s the problem with real life being literally beyond parody. I do think it’s good […]
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