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“Chug, chug, chug!” The chanted exhortation, a staple of fraternity parties and hen nights, echoes through Crypto.com arena. The screens that hang over…
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Prince Harry’s memoir comes out on Tuesday. I have a few thoughts. You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to…
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December 2022

In 1998, I received tenure at Pasadena City College. My mother already held tenure at Monterey Peninsula College, while daddy was a tenured professor at…
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I do not charge for subscriptions any longer, and my writing is free to all, but if you are interested in supporting me and my work, I would very much…
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Nine years ago this week, my fourth-and-soon-to-be-ex wife picked me up from Creative Care, the Malibu dual-diagnosis rehab that had been my home for…
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In his Sunday column, the conservative commentator David French considers Hugh Freeze, the new head football coach at Auburn University. Freeze has been…
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November 2022

For those of you who use Spotify, you know their famous “Wrapped” summaries dropped today. We are a people who love it when our particulars and…
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Wednesday, November 15 4:59PM PST. I hold my phone to the screen of my MacBook. “Can you see, Mousie?” “What am I looking at, papa? I don’t see…
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Two more small Saturday night notes on the election. ONE: With the Democrats holding the Senate, and with the retirement of Patrick Leahy of Vermont…
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Far wiser observers of the scene have better election post-mortems, so I’ll restrict myself to three observations about yesterday’s surprising midterms…
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I started graduate school at UCLA in the fall quarter, 1989. That was the quarter the Berlin Wall came down. It was the term of the great Loma Prieta…
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I do not charge for subscriptions any longer, and my writing is free to all, but if you are interested in supporting me and my work, I would very much…
Hugo Schwyzer
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