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All the Queen’s Men: Is Feminism Working?
I’m still catching up on my online/magazine reading since making it back from Europe, and it just so happens the writing that has gripped me the most has been written by women, about women, and to a...
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If You’re One of Those People Who Always Says “There’s No Such Thing as a...
Since Facebook keeps asking me what’s on my mind… Here’s a lecture on the common libertarian/conservative refrain “There’s no such thing as a free lunch.” It means you can’t get something for nothing,...
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Two Observations
(1) Self-identified liberals and progressives sometimes like to expose what they call “astroturf” organizations on the right — that is, organizations funded and managed by explicitly right-wing and...
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The Counterintuitive Logic of the Midterm Elections
Here’s a follow-up to my hopeful post on the mid-term elections, a Thomas Edsall piece posted about a week prior to the election. Strangely, Edsall and the researchers he relies on place the relevant...
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Chin up, Jacobins
Rich Yeselson, like George Scialabba, is one of those quiet workhorses on the left of which we’d all be better off reading more. That said, I have problems with Yeselson’s latest in Jacobin. I’ll just...
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When Facts Don’t Matter
And The drug war continues. What is becoming increasingly apparent is that in a nation where the top 1% owns 40% of the wealth; where the bottom 80% is forced to quarrel over a crumbling 7% of the...
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The Child is Father of the Man
Maybe it’s because everyone I know is popping out Mini-Mes, but I’ve been dwelling lately on the use of the child as metaphor. On the one hand, when someone says or does something that is crass,...
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Fred Hiatt’s Liberalism
Not too long ago I came across an op-ed in The Washington Post arguing our nation should move toward a “gun-free society.” The author made clear this would be a long-term goal requiring a gradual but...
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Solidarity
Yesterday I woke up at 5am, whipped up a bowl of cereal and a green smoothie, and proceeded to pick up a white female Wendy’s worker at the tip of Rochester abutting Lake Ontario, a black male...
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