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What Happens When a Bad-Tempered, Distractible Doofus Runs an Empire?

Donald Trump is reminiscent of Kaiser Wilhelm II, during whose reign the upper echelons of the German government began to unravel into a…

7 min readOct 16, 2018

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What Happens When a Bad-Tempered, Distractible Doofus Runs an Empire?

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Money Diaries, Where Millennial Women Go to Judge One Another’s Spending Habits

The most lurid corner of the Internet is not a new dating app or a fetish site. It’s a column in which anonymous young professional women…

6 min readOct 8, 2018

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Money Diaries, Where Millennial Women Go to Judge One Another’s Spending Habits

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My Last Conversation with My Father

My dad often told us that he assumed that he would have sons, but he ended up with girls. He eventually adjusted. As his firstborn, I…

6 min readOct 4, 2018

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My Last Conversation with My Father

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When It’s Too Late to Stop Fascism, According to Stefan Zweig

I wonder how far along the scale of moral degeneration Zweig would judge America to be in its current state

8 min readOct 2, 2018

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When It’s Too Late to Stop Fascism, According to Stefan Zweig

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My Mother and Her Scammer

She was fooled by a group of expert criminals. The rest of us were fooled by her.

14 min readAug 23, 2018

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My Mother and Her Scammer

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Are Things Getting Better or Worse?

Why assessing the state of the world is harder than it sounds.

18 min readAug 20, 2018

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Are Things Getting Better or Worse?

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Refinery29, Kylie Jenner, and the Denial Underlying Millennial Financial Resentment

By Jia Tolentino

6 min readAug 8, 2018

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Refinery29, Kylie Jenner, and the Denial Underlying Millennial Financial Resentment

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A Sociologist Examines the “White Fragility” That Prevents White Americans from Confronting Racism

By Katy Waldman

7 min readAug 8, 2018

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A Sociologist Examines the “White Fragility” That Prevents White Americans from Confronting Racism

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Looking for Life on a Flat Earth

What a burgeoning movement says about science, solace, and how a theory becomes truth.

20 min readJul 30, 2018

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Looking for Life on a Flat Earth

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The Rage of the Incels

Incels aren’t really looking for sex. They’re looking for absolute male supremacy.

8 min readJul 18, 2018

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The Rage of the Incels

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The New Yorker

The New Yorker is a weekly magazine with a mix of reporting of politics and culture, humor and cartoons, fiction and poetry, and reviews and criticism.

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