Conor Friedersdorf
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Shannon Stapleton / Reuters A Woman Who Takes Lady Liberty Seriously
Reaction to a Fourth of July protest suggests that some people who purport to revere the American monument actually fail to grasp its significance.
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George Peter Alexander Healy / National Portrait Gallery Abraham Lincoln’s Warning
The 16th president of the United States knew what the 45th does not. The Declaration of Independence is at the core of our political inheritance.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters Readers Respond to Jordan Peterson in Aspen
Nuanced critiques and qualified appreciations belie the stereotype that people are either with him or against him.
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John Kerry’s Advice to Democrats
The former secretary of state wants less attention paid to President Trump and more focus on the 2018 midterms. How to win them? He was less specific about that.
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Carlos Osorio / Toronto Star via Getty Images Jordan Peterson Comes to Aspen
In a wide-ranging conversation moderated by Bari Weiss, the controversial psychology professor was pressed for answers by a group quite different than his usual audiences.
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Damir Sagolj / Reuters Five Features of Better Arguments
A former Clinton administration official studied how to facilitate more constructive arguments among Americans. These are his conclusions.
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Tim Wimborne / Reuters The Futility of Standing Athwart Language Yelling ‘Stop!’
John McWhorter expects linguistic norms to change even faster in coming years—and he argues that we can be less bothered by attendant demands than we are today.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters Tucker Carlson Is Hurting America Again
As a demagogic president seeks to escape accountability by attacking the press, a Fox News host is irresponsibly echoing his sweeping attacks on mainstream outlets.
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Reuters The American Who Says He’s Been the Target of Five Air Strikes
A federal judge is allowing his suit to proceed, finding that his “interest in avoiding the erroneous deprivation of his life is uniquely compelling.”
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Reuters Trump’s ‘Great Chemistry’ With Murderous Strongmen
The United States diminished itself by electing a man who so often winds up needlessly praising dictators.
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Hannah Mckay / Reuters A Radically Woke and Deeply Conservative Commencement Address
At Pomona College, Danielle Allen spoke about the Declaration of Independence and its electric cord.
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Damir Sagolj / Reuters Congress May Declare the Forever War
A proposed law with bipartisan support would dramatically weaken the ability of legislators to extricate the United States from perpetual armed conflict.
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Reuters What One Professor’s Case for Hating Men Missed
A gender-studies scholar penned an essay laying out the logic of such loathing—but it falls short of its mark.
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Adnan Abidi / Reuters A Decision Too Important for Rick Perry
The Trump administration and its allies in Congress want the secretary of energy to determine whether to develop a new class of low-yield nuclear weapons.
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Danny Moloshok / Reuters Mitch Daniels Urges Graduates to Resist Tribalism
The former Indiana governor, who leads Purdue University, believes that the hostility Americans are now showing one another is a threat to democracy.
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Reuters The Last Words of Robert F. Kennedy
In the months before he was assassinated, the Democratic presidential candidate insisted that Americans confront their country’s shortcomings—and live up to its potential.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters The Celebrity Pardoner
Donald Trump cares much more about the rich and famous than the common person.
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Andrew Cullen / Reuters ‘In My Isolation, I Searched for Sanity on the Internet’
A collection of reader concurrences and dissents with responses.
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Phil McCarten / Reuters Roseanne’s Wake-Up Call for the Populist Right
Her outburst of racist invective provided a lesson for the populist right that too few of its members are heeding.
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Mike Blake / Reuters Fly On, My Sleek Electric Bird
A hard-boiled plea to prevent the killing of an enterprise that could ease traffic––maybe enough for Angelenos to move about as fast as they did in Raymond Chandler’s day.
