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The completeness of the Ricardian victory is something of a curiosity and a mystery. It must have been due to a complex of suitabilities in the doctrine to the environment into which it was projected. That it reached conclusions quite different from what the ordinary uninstructed person would expect, added, I suppose, to its intellectual […]
After an eight-year hiatus, our Column Contest triumphantly returned (thanks in no small part to the support from our Patreon members). We received over 400 entries. As with past contests, this year’s group featured many worthy winners. After much deliberation, we’re excited to announce the three grand-prize-winning columns. They are, in random order:
“Chronicles of a Catsitter” by Mai Tran
Mai Tran began catsitting in 2021 while they were on pandemic unemployment, often staying overnight in people’s homes. Tran has now cared for twenty-two cats and traveled to ten apartments all over New York City, observing the interior lives of cat owners and appeasing their neuroses. From home vet visits to black eyes to refugee cats, “Chronicles of a Catsitter” documents Tran’s most memorable days on the job.
“Sorry Not Sorry” by Laurence Pevsner
A column about why we’re sick of everyone apologizing all the time—and how the collapse of the public apology leaves little room for forgiveness and grace in our politics and culture.
Wouldn’t you rather try Hopium? Many of us have them in our lives or in our families, people who over the Trump years slid from left to right. For some it was the terror and isolation of the COVID-19 pandemic. For others it began sooner than 2020. Most are unknowns, but they often follow better-knowns down the rabbit hole. Michelle Goldberg considers the phenomenon in light of an In These Times essay by Kathryn Joyce (“The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking and the New Gospel of Adoption“) and Jeff Sharlet (“The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War“) and with a little help from Naomi Klein’s “Doppelganger.” Goldberg writes: There have been plenty of high-profile defectors from the left in recent years, among them the comedian Russell Brand, the environmentalist-turned-conspiracy-theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and the journalist Matt Taibbi, a onetime scourge of Wall Street, who was recently one of the winners of a $100,000 prize from the ultraconservative Young America’s Foundation.
The judgment of Justice Fancourt establishes a clear link between the ‘criminal media nexus’ of corrupt cops, journalists and the murders of Stephen Lawrence and Daniel Morgan to feature in trials next year
As the overall crown court backlog hits a record 67,000, Byline Times can reveal the number of ‘RASSO’ cases waiting to be heard has more than tripled in five years
Clay Higgins is on the case Brandi Buchman’s offering was the first thing that popped up on the hellsite this a.m. Clearly, former Louisiana lawman Rep. Clay Higgins, perpetually in high dudgeon (I love that phrase), is enjoying his moment in Lara Logan’s Truth in Media spotlight. “The Cajun John Wayne,” the man who accused the FBI of sending “ghost busses” filled with agents to Washington, D.C. on Jan. 6 to impersonate Trump supporters and spark the riot, has “done his research.” Again. Higgins insists that the Biden administration has weaponized the government (MAGAs love that phrase) to track Trump supporters. Higgins is gonna gear up, lock and load, expose ’em, flush ’em out, nip it in the bud: “I’m telling you, we’re in uncharted waters as it relates to the weaponization of our government against the American people. I am not frightened of these people. I’ve spent my life serving others, and I love my country. This thing is not going to just slip away. They’re not going to take us without a fight.
The difference between 'transitioning away' and 'phasing-out' fossil fuels is significant, writes Stuart Spray
Nafeez Ahmed argues that, despite mixed feelings about the COP28 agreement, it marks a real step forward
Paul Niland analyses the disinformation contained within a Republican Senator's TV interview
Rightso! Novels. My three runaway favourite novels this year, which I recommend to you wholeheartedly, are Rumaan Alam’s Leave the World Behind, Vajra Chandrasekera’s The Saint of Bright Doors and, friend of this parish, Francis Spufford’s Cahokia Jazz. Cahokia Jazz I want to write something dedicated about, and imminently, so let me tell you about […]
In today's BCTV Daily Dispatch: Sandman, James Gunn/DCU, SNL, Chucky, Charlie Hunnam/Green Arrow, Reacher, Doctor Who, Good Omens 3 & more!
Daniel Smith embarked upon the trail within the Apple II computer game, under the guidance of fifth grader Jordan Welch of Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1992.
August 12, 1843
Day 1
Today we set off on our two-thousand-mile journey to the fertile Willamette Valley at the Oregon Trail’s terminus. Our Lord Jordan guides my hand along this venture, and I trust He will keep us safe until we reach salvation. I take with me my family members; my wife Emily, and my children Mary, Jeb, and Abby. Although they are good Christian names, the Lord has decided to change them. My wife apparently will now be called Pizza. And my children are now named, Butt, Shredder, and KenGriffeyJr. Despite my misgivings my patient wife reassures me that the Lord doth move in mysterious ways. He also went ahead and renamed me DorkNutZ, but I care not if it gets us to Providence.
- by Psyche Film
In 2021, members of the Squad and its allies made history speaking up against Israel’s war on Gaza. Then came the backlash.
The post “The Squad,” Part 3: The Last Gaza War appeared first on The Intercept.
- by Lachlan Summers
County Durham, the home of the marras, has a rich tapestry of working-class heritage, celebrated every year at the beloved Durham Miners Gala. The county, full of ex-mining communities like mine, was decimated by Thatcherism and bled dry by austerity — a decline that left many communities without industry and cut off from their wider […]
Two deep-pocketed conservative organizations paid to send federal judges on 251 trips in 2021 and 2022 — far more than any other source.
