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We Created R. Kelly

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Update: September 21

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Update: August 31

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The Chair Is Everything You Expect, And That’s The Problem

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The COVID Deaths We Can’t Count

Excerpt: I am in despair. 

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On the Obamas as Nouveaux Riches

Excerpt: Who among us, including landed gentry and nobility with four-hundred-year-old castles, are not always already nouveaux in our riches? 

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Update: August 17

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Grief

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We Created the Cuomos

Excerpt: The public, watching, laughing, and cheering on these two brothers, was always fully complicit. 

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Obama’s Birthday Bash Is For Neoliberal Elites

Excerpt: As the first neoliberal president, the first such to think about himself as not merely a public figure but as an economic entity, Obama needed to monetise his legacy and make himself a desirable commodity that could in turn create an empire of wealth and influence for the elites he had cultivated over his eight years. 

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