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If the world is turning into a bleak stage for the cynical manipulation and abuse of democratic principles for undemocratic, illiberal, or simply self-aggrandizing ends, then the United States cannot hold itself entirely blameless.
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To be “disappeared”—a perverse if starkly accurate use of the passive voice—is not just to be kidnapped or killed. It is to be removed from the political world in such a way that no public memory or imagination is allowed.
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The real problem, as everybody knows, is not that the internet is ruining writing. It’s writing. There’s just too much of it.
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It is our 21st-century age-of-the-brand duty to come to the defense of our namesake, the hedgehog, recently maligned.
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Data is hard won, theoretically complicated, and wrapped up with questions of value, questions that Leon Wieseltier claims Nate Silver and all his "intimidating" fellow data journalists fear. But that's just not true.
What's the real-world significance of arguing in a New York Times op-ed that life doesn't exist? More than we might initially think.