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Timothy NoahPolitics, economics, domestic policy, and a smattering of culture.
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The Art of Sucking Up
Is this woman the biggest ass-kisser in the Trump administration? One can only hope.
The literature on sucking up is less extensive than you might think, given the extraordinary prevalence of such behavior. I review it in my latest N...
The Atlantic Magazine Would Have You Believe Your Death Will Be the End of Everything
Maurice Chevalier, glad not to be young anymore in “Gigi” (1958)
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Have you ever seen Vincente Minnelli’s 1958 film Gigi? An adaptation of Co...
Bring Me the Head of Anthea Hartig
Don’t look in the sack: Warren Oates in “Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia” (1973).
Last week’s Trump White House report titled Saving America’s Story is ostensibly a critique of the National Museum of American History, but its tr...
Trump's Smithsonian Jeremiad Missed That Totally Gay Statue of George Washington
Enthroned Washington, by Horatio Greenough, at the National Museum of American History.
How gay is that giant marble statue in the entrance hall of the National Museum of American History? Dude is half-naked, manspreading outrageousl...
Washing the American Flag
Norman Thomas giving a speech in Oakland, California, courtesy of Bancroft Library, University of California.
That dull throbbing in your head tells you the United States is about to celebrate a meaningful anniversary.
Thanks for re...
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Backbencher jefe; New Republic staff writer; author, "The Great Divergence." Former Politico, Slate, Wall Street Journal, US News, Washington Monthly, etc.
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