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Book review: Penance

In my last post, I mentioned the book I was reading, Eliza Clark’s Penance, to illustrate a broader phenomenon in which progressives tend to see themselves (and their favoured in-groups) as incapable of taking action of their own volition a...

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Conservatives ACT; progressives ARE

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Unmarked spoilers follow for Gabrielle Zevin’s Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow and Eliza Clark’s Boy Parts and Penance. The first two are worth checking out; the latter, not so much.

In January, I off...

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Censoring journalists to prevent suicides is a fool's errand

In 2015, published a post called “What Developmental Milestones Are You Missing?“ He described a variety of cognitive-behavioural milestones that might seem innate, but in fact have to be consciously learned at a young age. His examples in...

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The UK has its very own Juicy Smool-yay

The temptation to do the XXXTENTACION meme was considerable, but I resisted it.

My single favourite genre of non-fiction is stories about liars getting exposed as such. It’s why I’ve read Buzz Bissinger’s long-form piece “Shattered Glass”...

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Election deflection, C-section abjection, complexion dejection, the Meccan deception

In case you were wondering, there’s a pause before the last word in each line and every middle syllable is stressed, like so:

eLECtion, deFLECtion
c-SECtion, abJECtion
comPLEXion, deJECtion
the MECCan, deCEPtion

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