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Leaping Down the Weasel Hole
It's lazy thinking and, well, kind of fun! Why would we ever be surprised that the "alt-right" has fully embraced the likes of QAnon?
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Kirk Swearingen
Might Stanley Tucci Fill the Bourdain-shaped Hole in Our Hearts?
On his CNN series Tucci proves himself an engaging and knowledgeable guide to the regions of Italy.
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Kirk Swearingen
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In Praise of the Deep State
We need more people in politics who not only listen to experts but are more expert at being human beings.
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Kirk Swearingen
Hey, Cuck-Callers and QAnon-ers, Can We Talk?
The Family Values/QAnon party has some serious problems with their membership.
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Three Words to Break a Nation: Revisiting Wendell Berry’s “Hidden Wound”
Half a century ago, Wendell Berry wrote of growing up in rural Kentucky and articulated the “mirror wound” that white people suffer due to our history…
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Kirk Swearingen
“Going Dutch” Revisited
Has America’s myth of individualism and white resentment–based concept of “socialism” lessened our chances to pursue happiness as individuals and, as a…
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Kirk Swearingen
Suspicion
One would laugh to compare Josh Hawley with Cary Grant, but for this one role in the classic Hitchcock film "Suspicion"
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Map Quest
Ruminating over a street map of Manhattan carried by my wife's paternal grandfather
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Kirk Swearingen
Liar, Liar
It's true, Giuliani and Stone may not be lying—in an alt-realty universe.
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Kirk Swearingen
The Supreme Court: Chock Full o’ Catholics
Republicans have worked tirelessly to undermine the Disestablishment clause, “the true genius” of our Constitution, and adding foes of “Roe” to the high…
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Kirk Swearingen
Toddler Nation
The Right has devolved into what even conservative commentator Charlie Sykes calls “performative assholery,” and there is no bottom to it.
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Kirk Swearingen
Concerning the Ironical Naming of the Federalist Society
How did it happen that anti-federalists styled themselves federalists?
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Kirk Swearingen
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