A dumb podcast and the progressive turn toward nihilism
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Hopefully more authors like Lionel Shriver get the opportunity to put a mirror in front of woke do-gooders everywhere.
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He’s far more than the Supreme Secular Rationalist.
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In Jean Becker and Tom Collamore's Don't Tell the President, an oral history of the world of presidential advance, the authors provide a sense of what it's like to do advance work for a president or presidential candidate. Although this type of work has in some ways become easier with the advent of smartphones that allow teams to maintain contact with White House or campaign headquarters at all times, advance men and women are typically sent out to remote locations with minimal supervision and maximal responsibility. These teams face real, hard deadlines. The president will be at a certain time or place. The advance people must make sure everything runs smoothly. If they do their job perfectly, no one will notice. But if they screw up, the failed event will be blasted all over the evening news and the next day's headlines and become the fodder for late-night comics and the candidate's electoral foes.
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Mocked by Copenhagen’s most notorious scandal sheet, Kierkegaard endured months of deeply personal attacks and the silence of friends and allies.
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The millennials in Andrew Martin’s new novel "Down Time" are treading water: caught between youth and age, breaking up, and settling down.
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Paul Thompson writes about the incredible vanishing superstar.
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The American dream, according to Slavoj Žižek, amounts to “dematerialization” of real life as it becomes a “spectral show.”
Apr 28, 2026
What will it take to be fulfilled by life? Love, perhaps, or community, power, or professional success. At different points in my life I believed that having my work published would make me happy, or leaving the country, going back to school, getting a literary agent. I thought a new girlfriend might do it, or…
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Some thoughts as publishing day approaches
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Information about the memorial’s purpose and establishment.
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The Twelve Olympian Gods (Greek: Δωδεκάθεον, Dodekatheon) represent the core pantheon of ancient Greek religion, embodying divine authority over the natural world, human affairs, and cosmic order. Traditionally...
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Babur prevailed despite commanding almost no local support, facing a deeply hostile Muslim population, and wielding a technology that was not entirely new to India. How, then, did he win?
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In April 1996, two years after Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's death, fans could bid on everything from her school textbook to her diamond engagement ring. The BBC was at the auction.