Employer loyalty is nice, but people can’t actually their pay bills with it.
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The Constant Consumer
The world as platform: In Amazon’s dream universe, we’re all customers by virtue of existing.
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What Happened at the Lake
Wendell Lindsey is serving life prison for murdering his daughter. Maybe he did, or maybe he’s also a victim — of junk science, personal vendettas, weak investigation, and bad attorneys.
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Take Two $275 Herbal Supplements and Don’t Call Me in the Morning
Looks like you’ve got late-stage Patriarchal Medicine Syndrome. I’m so sorry.
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How Duterte Used Facebook To Fuel the Philippine Drug War
“If you want to know what happens to a country that has opened itself entirely to Facebook, look to the Philippines.”
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The Mystery of Tucker Carlson
If we figure out how Tucker Carlson went from promising gonzo journalist to “shouty guy in the bow tie,” maybe we’ll figure out what happened to America.
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Meet the Table Busser Who’s Worked at the Same Wilmette Pancake House for 54 Years
Othea Loggan made minimum wage in 1964. He makes minimum wage now. The owners are somehow fine with that.
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Graduate School is Wonderful and We Are All Very, Very Happy
Avital Ronell is both product and perpetuator of an abusive academy.
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Beyond Goop and Evil
Why don’t women feel well? We’ve come down with an advanced case of patriarchy.
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I Worked With Avital Ronell. I Believe Her Accuser.
“When scholars defend Avital — or ‘complicate the narrative,’ as we like to say — in part this is because we cannot stand believing what most people believe. The need to feel smarter is deep. Intelligence is a hungry god. “