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The Kindness of George Saunders, the Ugliness of Donald Sterling
How to teach James Baldwin.Some Thoughts on Kindness by George Saunders, animated.Longreads helpfully collects some assorted online essays by (and interviews with) Leslie Jamison, author of the new...
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How Paranoid Should You Be?
A few scenarios:Elvis is alive. Princess Diana is alive, or the Queen killed her because she was pregnant and converting to Islam. Anna Chapman, CEO of PropertyFinder LLC, was a Russian spy. Fidel...
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Eight Years of No: Stephen Harper and the Supreme Court
, Last Friday, the Supreme Court of Canadatold Stephen Harper no, again. This time it was telling him that, no, he could not abolish the Senate of Canada without getting the unanimous consent of the...
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On this street the lives are final drafts,The protagonists are flagsAnd dogs walking owners bearing little bags.The butter cuts beautifully for February.My living situation is temporary,I soak it up, a...
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The Last Time Things Made Sense: Space Ghost Coast to Coast at 20
Though they have a stable of classic cartoons, the big characters of Hanna-Barbera give a sheen to a studio whose real genius was for cranking out shows with industrial efficiency. There’s really no...
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‘We Can Be Vibrating Strings Of Energy’: An Interview with Dr. Eben Alexander
Heaven is hot. All over the bestseller lists and in the multiplexes: Heaven Is For Real, To Heaven and Back, Proof of Heaven, Noah… But why should that surprise? Humans don’t do well chained in all...
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Digging Up E.T. And Capturing El Chapo
That seems like a lot of rabies.Jake Silverstein gets the profile treatment from Capital ahead of taking over as editor-in-chief of the New York Times Magazine.Who is Sneaker Grandma? And what are her...
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Forgive Me, Father: Greatness and Disorder in James Agee’s Letters
In November 1951, a few weeks before his 42nd birthday and less than four years before his death by heart attack, James Agee was living in Los Angeles and reading Heavenly Discourse, a book of early...
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Praising Craig Ferguson, Reading Heather O'Neill, and the Tyranny of Not...
“The most transparent administration in history” won’t be forced to disclose how many people its drone strikes kill.What have not all men done now?“I think that’s bullshit. Complete and utter bullshit....
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Alone in the Global Village
In 1951 the English writer Norman Lewis travelled to a Burmese village, on the Irrawaddy River, where the monks in a local monastery kept fish as pets. They had trained the fish to surface on command...
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What if the Middle Class Moved Into Public Housing?
One of the most basic questions the 21st century is going to have to answer is what the fate of our cities will be. (It’s why some of us are so drearily obsessed with the subject.) Demographic,...
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How Should I Pee In Public?
Got a problem that’s got you feeling fucked if you do, fucked if you don’t? Send us your concerns and questions and Unfuck Yourself. I’m not going to tell you that I give great advice. I usually just...
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Drunk Actresses, Gay Cars, And Defending Cyclops
On Tuesday night, the state of Oklahoma committed, in Charles Pierce’s words, “an act of fucking barbarism,” when an experimental cocktail of lethal injection drugs failed to kill death row prisoner...
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Why We’re Driven to Dislike Politicians
Lies stick around in politics. Run an implausible attack ad, call your opponent a monster, and even after you’ve been thoroughly debunked, the negative feelings will linger. Fact-checkers and reporters...
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Hazlitt’s National Magazine Awards Nominations
Did you hear? Hazlitt was nominated for 10 whole National Magazine Awards this morning! Here’s some of the great work our staff and contributors were recognized for.“The Yonge St. scene was, along with...
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No New Lint
Over at The Grid, Edward Keenan goes hammer on delinquent mayor Rob Ford with a hearty, “Well, fuck that.”Why would a whale explode? Has the whale exploded yet? Will the whale explode at all? Here is...
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There’s No Apologizing to the Dead: On the Arrest of Gerry Adams
History is a stain. Gerry Adams knows this; his life is founded in the fact. The streets of Belfast, clean and commercial as they are now, are a testament in concrete to the blood crimes committed...
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The Unmanageable Life of Rob Ford
“Give me five or six months, and if they don’t see a difference, I’ll eat my words.” – Rob Ford, November 2013It seems quaint now, but when I called Rob Ford an addict—in the first thing I ever wrote...
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Killing Your Self For Love
“John and Yoko today entered the London Clinic for a series of sex-change operations which, if successful, would make them the first married couple in history to completely reverse their marital...
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