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An objection to the hatred of socialists

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First they came for the Nazis

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The question of saving Syrian children

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Tomi Lahren vs Moses: a contest in barbarity

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Pop music versus the hipsters

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How to be a terrible Mexican

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Absalom

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Dreaming of right-wing women

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The case for racist English classes

February 26, 2017

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The perils of parenthood

February 25, 2017

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On bums

February 09, 2017

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Superbowl 51

February 05, 2017

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Daylight saving time and its detractors

February 02, 2017

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We're pregnant

January 22, 2017

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What was Aleppo?

January 19, 2017

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Westworld: a review

January 05, 2017

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Carrie Fisher, world class beauty

January 02, 2017

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Baby, it's cold outside

December 24, 2016

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This week in hate

December 11, 2016

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Social media: an apology

December 08, 2016

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In defense of socialists

November 23, 2016

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Why everyone hates Ayn Rand

November 05, 2016

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The perils of naming yourself

October 25, 2016

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In praise of Milo Yiannopoulos

October 24, 2016

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The American Dream and its critics

October 16, 2016

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On wankery

September 25, 2016

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Are women as good as men?

September 18, 2016

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Mothers and other villains

September 15, 2016

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A Room of One's Own: a review

September 02, 2016

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The case for Cat Stevens

August 31, 2016

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Goodbye to the 68'ers

August 29, 2016

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Between the World and Me: a review

August 20, 2016

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The Fire Next Time: a review

August 10, 2016

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Some sympathy for the historical American jingo

August 04, 2016

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Random thoughts on the unpopularity of populism

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A bigger problem than plagiarism

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The Age of Bad Reasons

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Officially the worst wedding speech I have ever given in a dream

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On the death of Anthony Bourdain

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How to love yourself like a man

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Thoughts on the Dark Ages

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Why we still go to church

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A defense of my almost indefensible language

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A waste of Cicero

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An objection to my latest essay on Spike Lee

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Dear T, The concept of privilege is easy to prove, but liberals were trying to prove it. That's why so few of us swallowed it. All they had to say was some people have it easier than others and left it at that. They could have pointed to people living in the ghetto and said isn't that worse? Or at ugly people and said wouldn't that be hard? But they put white in front of it or bias and put the blame on the wrong people the wrong way*.

Our problem with the presidency

Dear M, Paul Johnson says, in his biography of Washington, that in 1789, the only monarch with powers as wide as the President's was the czar. All the other ones were hemmed in by regulations. Johnson doesn't go too far into detail about it; but why take his word when we can see it right in front of us? In the last eight years we found the President can put grown men into little girls' locker rooms; that he can pay enemy states hundreds of billions in ransom cash; that he can flood our states with millions of Africans and Middle-Easterners; that he can make or unmake the border at whim; that he can grant citizenship to illegal aliens; that he can pardon scores of drug dealers; that he can veto almost every bill; that he can station troops in any town; that he can put off the payment of payroll taxes; that he can effectively bribe the unemployed with hundreds of dollars a week; that he can bomb people in countries we're not at war with; that he can spy on the next pre...

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