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  • My Time in the University Gulag

    My Time in the University Gulag0

    Each of us is a center of the universe, and that universe is shattered when they hiss at you: “You are under arrest!” “Me? What for?” These were the words that every Gulag prisoner parceled out before detention. Who knew what their crime really was? Mine was being a Christian, cisgender male of European descent

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  • My Random, Bold Predictions for 2018

    My Random, Bold Predictions for 20180

    Let it be known that I am not a prophet, and I will quite happily eat crow, eat my hat, eat my words… eat whatever is necessary when my prognostications prove preposterous and my prophecies prove to be not prophetic, but pathetic. Nevertheless, with my finger to the wind and my squinty eye on the

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  • My New Year’s Resolution: Have More Enemies

    My New Year’s Resolution: Have More Enemies1

    How are your New Year’s resolutions going? I rarely make them, but this year I have. Please do not mistake the title. I did not write “make more enemies,” though to be honest that might not be a bad one for some people. That would be a different essay, however. This is not an essay

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  • My New Life After Transgender Despair

    My New Life After Transgender Despair0

    Last December, I received an early Christmas present that I would have rejected just one year earlier: an “M” for “male” on my driver’s license. The switch back to male marked the end of a long journey of gender confusion and self-deception. Along the way I became a transgender activist and then America’s first legally non-binary

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  • My Meeting with Solzhenitsyn

    My Meeting with Solzhenitsyn0

    Almost anyone of my generation will remember Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970, he was a hero in the struggle against Soviet tyranny, as well as being one of the finest novelists and historians of the twentieth century. Back in the late-1990s, I had the inestimable honor to travel to Moscow

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  • My Lyft Ride with a Black Trump Supporter on MLK Day

    My Lyft Ride with a Black Trump Supporter on MLK Day0

    The media narrative on American politics has become so tedious you don’t have to listen anymore. Every story seems to follow a formula, and never more so on than on the Martin Luther King holiday. Every headline proclaims how black Americans are horrified at Trump’s insensitivity to the historical plight of blacks in the civil

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