Episode 58: All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren
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Every element of the college admissions scandal, a.k.a “Operation Varsity Blues,” is fascinating.
There are the players: the Yale dad who, implicated in a securities-fraud case, tipped the feds off to the caper; a shady high-school counselor turned admissions consultant; the 36-year-old Harvard grad who ...
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Did the New Zealand Shooter Change the Cultural Script?
As the number of massacres mounts, the best explanation for the never-ending stream of copycat killers, both here and abroad, remains the one articulated by Malcolm Gladwell in his seminal article on school shootings, called “Thresholds of Violence.” Essentially, he argues that each mass shooting lowers the ...
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Says Bartending Helped Her Recognize Cohen’s Lies
She's not a fan.
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Shibboleth Is a Fun Word
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is Jonah Goldberg’s weekly “news”letter, the G-File. Subscribe here to get the G-File delivered to your inbox on Fridays.
Estimado Lector (y todos mis amigos a través del Atlántico),
Greetings from Barcelona. And it is Bar•ce•lona, not Barth•e•lona. That ...
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The SPLC Fires Its Co-Founder, and Its Own Intolerance Is Exposed Again
For fair-minded observers, this has been a bad week for the credibility of the two most aggressive (and punitive) “watchdogs” of the right -- Media Matters and the Southern Poverty Law Center. Thanks to Peter Hasson at the Daily Caller News Foundation, we discovered the stunning hypocrisy of Media Matters ...
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This Week’s Russia Legislation Is Everything That’s Wrong with Congress
House Republicans this week joined with the chamber’s Democratic majority to pass Russia legislation that highlights the bad joke Congress has become. When not calling for a pointless investigation that will enable them to preen in opposition to Vladimir Putin — something Democrats never cared to do prior to ...
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John Lennox: The Oxford Mathematics Professor Who Defends Christianity
Oxford, England — John Lennox, emeritus professor of mathematics at the University of Oxford, leans forward in his chair, his blue eyes brightening, as he explains how his peculiar profession nearly shipwrecked the academic career of one of his intellectual heroes, Christian author and apologist C. S. ...
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AOC Mocks ‘Thoughts and Prayers’ After New Zealand Mosque Shooting, Says It’s an ‘NRA Phrase’
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) mocked the tendency to resort to prayer in the face of tragedy after 49 people were killed at mosques in New Zealand on Friday, and even suggested the phrase “thoughts and prayers” was devised by the NRA to distract from the issue of gun violence.
Four ...
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