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My Internet Friends
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My Internet Friends

The less obvious part of the phenomenon of online friendships is that the communities created are often much more than common interest spaces.

What Trump Sees in Doug Burgum
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What Trump Sees in Doug Burgum

Trump’s VP contest isn’t really about the contestants; it’s about investing the audience in the drama of choosing and the man making the choice. Burgum is just plausible enough to extend that drama.

The Making of a Banana Republic
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The Making of a Banana Republic

Now that the Rubicon has been crossed and we have entered a world in which politicians attempt to not merely defeat their opposition at the ballot box but also prosecute and incarcerate them, there is no going back.

Suicide Permitted
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Suicide Permitted

In coming to grips with why suicide and suicidal ideation have become so widespread in the West, we tend to overlook one central fact: We no longer consider life sacred.

Recognizing the Enemy Within
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Recognizing the Enemy Within

John Frankenheimer’s “The Manchurian Candidate” illuminates timeless and timely truths about the relationship between freedom and authoritarianism, as well as the that between illusion and reality. It’s a perfect film for our times.

Bragg’s Prosecution Makes Trump a Martyr
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Bragg’s Prosecution Makes Trump a Martyr

It is difficult to imagine that Trump’s alleged dalliance with Stormy Daniels will be his undoing. If anything, this show trial may have been the thing he needed to remind America of his peculiar virtues.

Wokedom Westernizes Russia to Malign Her
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Wokedom Westernizes Russia to Malign Her

By describing Russia as an heir to the habits of Western imperialism, the current woke psychosis, combined with crisis escalation in Ukraine, has the potential to destroy the remnant of our common European civilization.

‘Risky Business’ As Conservative Morality Tale?
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‘Risky Business’ As Conservative Morality Tale?

“Risky Business” wasn’t supposed to be a sly indictment of capitalism. A coming re-release from the Criterion Collection restores the director’s original intention as a warning about crazy women and the power of sex to destroy men.

Cancer and American Films
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Cancer and American Films

Hollywood’s decades-long fascination with the 0the struggles of cancer patients may tell us more about the human condition than many people traumatized by the disease want to know.