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The Jaundiced Eyeball
Odd Time to be Evenhanded
One of the rarely acknowledged liabilities of a corporate-run media is its diehard resistance to plain speech and direct action. In …
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Selected Salvos
Explanation for What?
Future historians may well mark the date of April 6, 2014, as a watershed moment in the media’s epic bid to …
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Online Essays
It’s Already Happened Here
It was 1855, and Abraham Lincoln was in a mood. “Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid,” he …
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Stories
From “All the Houses”
Often when I tell people I grew up in Washington, D.C., they ask me if I grew up in the city …
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Books
Cotton Tenants: Three Families
A rediscovered masterpiece of reporting by a literary icon and a celebrated photographer. In 1941, James Agee and Walker Evans published Let …