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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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Digest, 5/27/2023: Gnash Gnash Gnash
the ninety-first digest post
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Not If Representation Matters, But How and When It Matters
I know I’m behind the zeitgeist on this one, but I really liked Beef, Netflix’s recent eight-episode series starring Steven Yeun and Ali Wong. I found…
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The Paradox of Assimilation
This one goes in the “not particularly novel, just interesting to me” file. I was born and raised in the 1980s. This was a period of considerable…
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Psychotic Disorders Do Not Respect Autonomy, Independence, Agency, or Freedom
All political debates are subject to the imposition of emotion and the distortion of bullying, but I know of none where that is more true than with the…
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Stanford Law Students Are Your Class Enemy
(or, if they aren't, maybe we should reconsider categorical politics)
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"Beloved" Book Club Starts 5/30
Hey friends, first, I need to apologize for being really inconsistent as of late, especially when it comes to the digest posts - I just have had a ton…
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Subscriber Writing, May 2023
Here’s a set of links to subscriber writing for the month of May 2023. Forgive me for getting this out so late - there’s a lot going on in my life right…
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It's All in Your Hands
I’m not one who struggles to just keep going, as so many people do, but I come closest when I think of this: that there are gentle people to whom the…
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The World Needs Taylor Swift Goblin Mode
Preorder my new book! Recently, Taylor Swift has been facing some heat from fans over persistent rumors that she’s dating Matt Healy, the lead singer of…
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