Freddie deBoer

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Complexity is Good, Actually
including and especially complicated relationships
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Book Club, Beloved: Chapters One, Two, Three
So. Facts first, and briefly, because I know people hate too much summary. In Cincinnati, in the 1870s, a former slave named Sethe lives with her…
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Following the Word
Recently I was taking my morning walk in Prospect Park when a stray gust of wind blew a pink quarter-page leaflet onto my chest. I pulled it off of my…
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Digest, 6/4/2023: Dearly Beloved
the ninety-second digest post
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A Housing Abundance Movement Can Help Save America's Wild Spaces
I am, as you know, terribly frustrated with (some) (online) YIMBY people. I think the guys who make up a prominent slice of the YIMBY public face need…
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Open Thread, 6/1/2023
From the annals of truly bizarre behavior… recently we let a realtor open up our apartment to show to potential new tenants. We were gone for an…
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Politics, Not Apology, or What My New Book is Actually About
it's got nothing to do with "wokeness," really
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Book Club, Beloved: Introduction
Toni Morrison died in 2019. When she did, she received as much acclaim as our culture ever affords novelists, these days. Speaking as someone who’s read…
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Goodbye to "Goodbye to All That"
maybe leaving New York can just be a choice
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Numb at the Lodge
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