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- Quillette Editors’ Choice of 2024 December 21, 2024Jamie, Jon, Iona, and Claire share their favourite essays from this year.Quillette
- Podcast #264: A Theory of Everyone December 21, 2024Iona Italia talks to cultural evolutionary theorist Michael Muthukrishna, author of ‘A Theory of Everyone,’ about the human dual inheritance—part inherited, part taught—and about how energy availability underpins everything.Quillette
- From Skies to Screens December 20, 2024Our experience of the world is increasingly mediated by digital technology. This is stripping us of our sense that the physical landscape is infused with meaning.Robert Huddleston
- Quillette Editors’ Choice of 2024 December 21, 2024
- Jay Nordlinger
- Roads of Poetry December 20, 2024Reader mail about poems, memorized.Jay Nordlinger
- Poems by Heart, Cont. December 20, 2024Writers tell of poems they have memorized, would like to memorize, etc.Jay Nordlinger
- A Man of Parts December 19, 2024WFB was big, devouring life, and brightening it.Jay Nordlinger
- Roads of Poetry December 20, 2024
Tag Archives: Democrats
Now What?
Campaign Finance Recent events have proved to be clarifying if unedifying. Michael Bloomberg did us the enormous favor of spending over $500 million in an effort to win the Democratic Presidential nomination. For his efforts he won a total of … Continue reading
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Tagged abortion politics, campaign, Chuck Schumer, Democrats, demonstration, Joe Biden, Mike Bloomberg, money in politics, President Obama, President Trump, primary, protest, Supreme Court
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What Do Democrats Believe?
A long time ago in a faraway place—the United States circa 2016–Democrats rightly criticized Republicans for tolerating Donald Trump’s appalling behavior. Despite—or maybe because of said behavior—Trump managed to squeak past Hillary Clinton in the electoral college to win the … Continue reading
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Tagged abortion politics, Ben Sasse, Democrats, Elizabeth Warren, Filibuster, policy, Republicans, Senate
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A Time for Choosing
It’s finally here. After what seems like years of primary campaigning, Iowa Democrats are finally about to have their say in the matter via the Iowa caucuses. The field has narrowed considerably from the original 2 dozen or so contestants … Continue reading
Seriously?
When listening to politicians speak it is always entertaining to observe the high opinion they have of themselves. The latest entry in the comic book hero series comes from none other than Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House. Toward the … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill Clinton, Democrats, Hillary Clinton, Impeachment, Pelosi, Schumer, Senate, Soleimani, Trial, Washington DC
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Seriously?
Rivals for the 2020 Democratic Presidential nomination Senator Elizabeth Warren (D. MA) and “Mayor Pete” Buttigieg (D. South Bend IN), have taken to firing at each other over the issue of transparency. Each is busy pretending that other has failed … Continue reading
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Tagged Buttigeig, campaign, Democrats, Mayor Pete, nomination, politics, Senator Warren
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