“How much can fans conveniently forget in order to enjoy the games? The answer, evidently, is a lot.”
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The Banal Horror of Jimmy Fallon
“Under the sterile blue lights of his studio, Fallon laughs endlessly at the same pseudo-jokes, rubs elbows with Trump and Sam Altman, and ushers in the death of culture.”
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Politics After Literacy
“Postliteracy won’t replace reason with madness, but it might give us madness of a new and different type.”
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The Myth of the Police State
“No one, not even the supposed beneficiaries, is protected.”
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‘This Is Not a Peaceful Protest!’
“A visual archive of Jan. 6, 2021, through the lenses of those who were there.”
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Filthy Matters
“Calvin Gimpelevich writes on the history and politics of public bathrooms.”
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Maybe Don’t Talk to the ‘New York Times’ About Zohran Mamdani
“The former chair of the Africana Studies department at Bowdoin College would prefer not to.”