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The culture war is not a conspiracy (opens the original)
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The GOP is in trouble. Heading into the midterms, gas prices are up ($4.48), Trump’s approval rating is down (37.6%), the trade war with Canada is hurting the economy, and the actual war in Iran is turning out deadlier than we’d been told.<div class="captioned-ima
Moral rights without metaphysical baggage (opens the original)
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It is what it is (opens the original)
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A man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do.Boys will be boys.I am what I am.You do you.Kids will be kids.A baby’s gotta do what a baby’s gotta do.Communication is not unique to humans, but human communication is unique. Other primates can be taught to say no as a refusal. Only humans say no as negation. “No man is an island,” “Big kids don’t cry,” “There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends.” These are categorically more sophistica
Down iff Under (opens the original)
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Last month, I moved back to Australia to take a dream job at the Australian National University, where I’d been a visitor for nearly a decade. My (Aussie) wife and I dearly miss our friends and family in the US—and I will forever love UNC—but we’re grateful to have found permanent jobs in the same city at last, and we’re delighted to be back Down Under.In hono(u)r of Australia, I thought I’d share five of my favo(u)rite facts about this remarkable country.<a class="button primary" href="https://
“Our job is to lie, cheat, and steal—and your job is to do the show” (opens the original)
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The War for Late Night, Bill Carter’s masterpiece, is a book about show business. It’s a story of deception, bad taste, backstabs, frontstabs, myopia, and amnesia, as Carter relates how NBC exploited their brilliant young star, Conan O’Brien, by promising him his dream job as host of The Tonight Show—only to push him out early to reinstall their middlebrow moneymaker, Jay Leno, in one of the greatest corporate foul-ups in American history.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https:
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