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Commencement 2024
Welcome to Commencement 2024. I’m delighted to be your speaker today because the original, more famous booking dropped out when he realized what you’re like. Some of…
May 21, 2024
Xi takes off the mask: The Beijing tyrant has spent 12 years wrecking China’s image
Entertainment
The Planet of the Apes franchise forgets the purpose of civilization
The reboot series that began with 2011’s Rise of the Planet of the Apes is one of the very few postmillennial retreads that justified itself. Planet of…
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You’ll own nothing and Apple will like it
Apple released a controversial new ad last week that it apologized for a mere 48 hours later. The ad, released on X, features a large collection of…
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The public W.H. Auden
Something went out of public life the day that W.H. Auden died in 1973 at age 66. Oh, there were still people writing poetry, still journals publishing…
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What Glenn Loury taught me
It’s difficult to overstate how barren and lonely intellectual life at Brown University felt as a policy major circa mid-2005, at least if one was more interested…
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Review of ‘Morning After the Revolution’ by Nellie Bowles
In the canon of culture war literature, Nellie Bowles’s Morning After the Revolution may be distinguished from its contemporaries by what it lacks. It does not boast…
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Surviving the USS Forrestal fire
Sometimes the stories I encounter in this job leave me stunned. To wit, I recently spoke with Aviation Electrician’s Mate 2nd Class Anthony O’Malley, who served aboard…