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  • The Debate Around COVID-19 Is Starting to Sound Familiar

    The Debate Around COVID-19 Is Starting to Sound Familiar0

    The debate over COVID-19, both the virus and the policy response, is starting to feel a lot like another complicated scientific issue: global warming. It only took about a month – lockdowns and stay-at-home orders didn’t come into full effect until mid-to-late March at earliest – for us to force a question of public health

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  • Reddit Is a Window Into the American Nightmare

    Reddit Is a Window Into the American Nightmare0

    The Internet, among other things, is a compendium of human nature; an emergent portrait of everything that we are. Discussion forums in particular, most especially Reddit, are an endless encyclopedia encompassing all of humanity’s creativity, kindness, brutality, eccentricity, and boredom. Reddit can occasionally inspire, and the right corners of the site can teach you a

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  • Marie Kondo is No Cure For Our Hyper-Consumer Culture

    Marie Kondo is No Cure For Our Hyper-Consumer Culture0

    With all the commentary and meta-commentary about Japanese design consultant Marie Kondo’s new Netflix show, you could be forgiven for thinking there was something mystical about keeping a neat home. There’s nothing mystical about it, of course, though perhaps we should be thankful that we are among the first generations in human history affluent enough to spend

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  • When a House was a Home

    When a House was a Home0

    Anyone who grew up in or around large families probably remembers a particular kind of evening. Perhaps it was a birthday, or a family reunion, or a Christmas or New Years’ party, or a civic holiday. Depending on the ethnicities of the families involved, there might have been trays of baked ziti and meatballs, or

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