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The Jaundiced Eyeball
Salt Lake Snake Oil
Right-wing ideologues usually mine the past for their chosen didactic set-pieces. Here you’ll find a Charles Murray bemoaning a vanished age …
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Selected Salvos
Inauguration of the Trumpian Beauty Contest
Purification does little good for political history. For a long while, we in the West have awarded the sash proclaiming World’s …
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Online Essays
The Great Data Sale
“Don't it always seem to go / That you don't know what you've got / ‘Til it's gone.”—Joni Mitchell. You can tell …
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Stories
Captain’s Table
For the past decade or so, I have been obsessed with news stories about cruise ships, in particular the idea of …
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Books
Cotton Tenants: Three Families
A rediscovered masterpiece of reporting by a literary icon and a celebrated photographer. In 1941, James Agee and Walker Evans published Let …