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I was no longer interested in music that wore its heart (or its unexamined identity politics) on its sleeve.
This is ultimately what I like about the Born-Again Lifestyle: Even though I see fundamentalist Christians as wild-eyed maniacs, I respect their verve. They are probably the only people openly fighting against America’s insipid Oprah Culture—the pervasive belief system that insists everyone’s perspective is valid and that no one can be judged. As f
... See moreChuck Klosterman • Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs
Talk show hosts as the figureheads of paternalistic society, culture nanny - Alissa Bennett
Donald Trump kept trying to thread the needle with birther accusations. Maybe this sitting president isn’t a real American. Maybe this election—of a man, by the way, who was scrutinized the first time he ran for office—is a case where we need to take a closer look. This all happens on a more fundamental level than policy disputes. It would be comed
... See moreAhmir "Questlove" Thompson • Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove
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Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
Each time, I’ve marveled at the logic and ease and length (181 words) of the sentence, the hard clausal steps that slowly mount (or is it descend?) to a grammatically wrong-footing conclusion—the dash’s flat fall where we might have expected a “then…” or “so…” I have wondered about the oddity of Woolf’s metaphors—the sentence is mostly made of meta
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