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Donald Weber / Getty I Don’t Want to Smell You Get High
I’m glad that draconian anti-marijuana laws have disappeared. But we need a taboo against public consumption.
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Hulton Archive / Getty You Can’t Define Woke
The word is not a viable descriptor for anyone who is critical of the many serious excesses of the left yet remains invested in reaching beyond their own echo chamber.
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Ben Hickey The French Are in a Panic Over le Wokisme
The nation’s vehement rejection of identity politics made me recalibrate my own views about woke ideology.
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Seth Herald / AFP / Getty Not Every Atrocity Is About White Supremacy
Why I am skeptical of the reflex to attribute violence to structural racism
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Tyler Comrie / The Atlantic; Getty The People Who Don’t Read Books
Identifying as someone who categorically rejects books suggests a much larger deficiency of character.
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The Atlantic How the French Do Christmas
With smaller trees, more champagne, and a focus on adult fun
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Erik Carter / The Atlantic Whoops, I Deleted My Life
A sense of panic set in when I realized I’d erased the entirety of my inbox.
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JUERGEN TELLER FOR THE ATLANTIC Rachel Cusk Won’t Stay Still
The acclaimed novelist has moved countries and finds herself at a turning point in her art and in her life.
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Samuel Boivin / NurPhoto / AP The Politically Charged Murder Shaking Paris
How France’s far right is using the killing of a 12-year-old in its fight for ethnonationalism
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Sylvain Lefevre / Chesnot / Getty; The Atlantic ‘If Macron Loses, Putin Wins’
No matter the outcome of Sunday’s election, the appeal of extremist candidates is worrying for the health of transatlantic liberalism.
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Getty; The Atlantic Saving Classics From Identity Politics
Underprivileged students have much to gain from entry into the larger intellectual culture that has molded Western societies.
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Joseph Chabord; Antoine Gyori / Corbis / Getty; … Just How Frightening Is France’s New Right?
I witnessed Éric Zemmour electrify a seething and violent mob.
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The Atlantic Do Americans Understand How Badly They’re Doing?
In France, where I live, the virus is under control. I can hardly believe the news coming out of the United States.
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Racism Without Racists?
Even the most successful black Americans can feel haunted by a vague, invisible form of discrimination. The author's advice is to stop looking for it.
