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NEW A group of lawyers with deep ties to the Republican Party scrambled over the weekend to rescue an effort to get independent presidential candidate Cornel West on the Arizona ballot. This is one of the clearest examples yet of the GOP’s extensive involvement in furthering

This hate-speechy tweet, with nearly 10,000 RTs, is of course totally fraudulent. These quotes are fake. I know, hard to believe anything on X isn't assiduously researched.

My wife edited this great New York Times Opinion Op-ed/fiction from Curtis Sittenfeld. Human writer takes on AI, John-Henry style. nytimes.com/2024/08/20/opi…

Bill Murray as secret American totem. "Our fathers had Gary Cooper—the gun fighter, the beleaguered marshal facing down outlaws in a frontier town. We had Bill Murray—the wiseass, the class clown injured by adulthood, with sarcasm as crutch" Rich Cohen wsj.com/arts-culture/f…

My wife edited this essay by my friend Alex Edelman for New York Times Opinion, which made me laugh and cry in almost equal measure nytimes.com/2024/08/24/opi…

Not sure what they're referring to, but then again it might fit so many topics.

I know they say don't feed the trolls.  But I thought it worth pointing out the insane volume of antisemitic posts aimed at me recently. A thread. -1

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Finding yourself in a remote place w/20 minutes of internet a day -- even for only a week -- is a pretty shocking adjustment.

Watched "Rio Bravo" on a recent flight. I kept wondering what would have been had Elvis, as Hawks wanted, been cast over the just-adequate Ricky Nelson.

There's a new push to claim Germany was the victim in WW2. It's insane.

Reminder that, with no justification, Germany conquered Poland, Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands Luxembourg, France, Yugoslavia, Greece and Italy, and invaded Russia. Not to mention declared war on the USA for no reason other than to back up Japan.

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If we are going sacrifice 43,000 lives a year on the altar of freedom, can we ask ourselves if a country like Australia -- which suffers 42,700 fewer such deaths per year -- is less free?

I'm thrilled to share that I've joined the The Yale Review as a Contributing Fiction Editor. The YR publishes brilliant work, and it's an honor to be part of Meghan O'Rourke's team. Our submission window is open this month, so please send your stories ASAP - I'm looking forward to reading.