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I No Longer Write About Politics

And here’s why It’s not that I’ve stopped caring. Quite the opposite. The last five years in American politics have been especially brutal, but I’m not pulling, turtle-like, into my shell — as tempting as that can be. And boy…

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Look Forward, or Back?

January is the Month With Two Faces A two-faced Roman deity gives us the name January Or maybe not: Wikipedia points out that while “conventional belief” holds that the first month of the year is named after Janus, ancient Roman…

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Can We Play Fair in 2021?

Seeking referees for the Internet and media Long, long ago, in the 1990s, we spoke of the Information Highway Many of us weren’t sure what that meant exactly, but it was going to make life bigger, better, and ever so…

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Hello, Person To My Right

There’s been some confusion. Can we talk? Wow, it’s noisy out there There’s so much shouting and posturing as the days tick by toward November 3 that we can hardly hear ourselves think, am I right? New day, new spectacle, from…

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