Opinion
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Don’t Wish for a Post-Pax Americana
Who knows, at this writing, what Vladimir Putin will decide to do with the forces he’s massed along Ukraine’s borders?…
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Yes, Some Musicals Are Unwoke. That’s Not a Writ to Rewrite Them.
The Encores! series at New York City Center has, a program for the new season reads, “staged weeklong revivals of…
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Why We Are Not Facing the Prospect of a Second Civil War
It has not been uncommon, in recent years, to hear Americans worry about the advent of a new civil war.…
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Trump’s Big China Flop and Other Failures
Do you remember Donald Trump’s trade war? You can be forgiven for having forgotten all about it, given everything that…
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When ‘Freedom’ Means the Right to Destroy
On Sunday the Canadian police finally cleared away anti-vaccine demonstrators who had been blocking the Ambassador Bridge between Detroit and…
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How Can This University Charge Nothing for Tuition?
Last Monday I got an email from a university president about Tara Westover’s powerful Opinion essay this month on her…
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We Weren’t Wrong to Love ‘The Cosby Show’
About a year before the pandemic entered the chat, I got an invitation to participate in a documentary. The email…
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Can We Get Smarter About Disinformation?
Over the past five or so years, “disinformation”has become a catchall explanation for what ails the country. Everything from QAnon…
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There Will Be No Post-Covid
There have been many stages of our collective Covid reaction. There was the initial panic, with the shortages of toilet…
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Wonking Out: Very Serious Folk Economics
A few days ago, Tressie McMillan Cottom published an insightful article in The Times about the power of “folk economics”…