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Outtakes and Vagabonds: What’s wrong with King Charles and other very rich people?

I’m pretty sure Rebecca Mead did not intend to spark my pity for Charles Windsor, et al., in her excellent and lightly dishy article, “King Me,” in the May 8 New Yorker. Yet she did. And she did it within … Continue reading

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Why are likely Jan 6 defendants so nonchalant about going to prison?

I’ve spent some time thinking about this. Among some quick and easy answers: They don’t fully understand what they’re facing, because… They are appallingly ignorant about our history, our laws, our prosecutorial agencies such as the DOJ, and our conventions. … Continue reading

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Part 3. The matriarch of all revolutions

You thought we were finished? Oh no. Bannon’s revolution is finished — except for the prison sentences. But in the Russian Revolution, the battiness continued. When I left off excerpting Victor Sebestyen’s narrative of the Russian Revolution in his biography … Continue reading

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