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August 2023
There is no "Shameful Final Chapter"
A story in the Los Angeles Times today: A federal judge has sentenced Mark Ridley-Thomas, once a towering figure in Los Angeles politics, to 42 months…
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Life Just Happens to Me: A Note on Love and Passivity
July 1999. Stephanie and I regard each other over across the table. We are at Barneys Beanery on Santa Monica Promenade. We met three hours ago for a…
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I Won't Fight for my Vision: Confessions of a Failed Screenwriter
“Do you think William Randolph Hearst and Julia Morgan were in love?” I stare at my friend Mike. It’s an odd question to ask in a Starbucks on a Monday…
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Schnozzes and Stakeholders: Looking for a Truth about Bradley Cooper's Prosthetic Nose
A few years ago, as Black Lives Matter convulsed the country, my alma mater appointed a commission to discuss changing the school mascot. My beloved…
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Civic Friendship and Disapproval
I grew up, as you may have grown up, hearing variations on the line misattributed to Voltaire: “I despise what you have to say but will defend to my…
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Not Free to Desist from the Work: Porn, Guns, and Holding Back the Tide
My hometown is built on a hill that slopes towards the sea. The beach is separated from town by thirty-foot bluffs. For over a century, the city has…
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Ten Years on from “that Twitter Meltdown”
Tomorrow, it will be ten years. On August 9, 2013, I woke up in my childhood bedroom in Carmel. I ate the breakfast my mother made, but lied when she…
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July 2023
Sex is Not a Transaction
Another Reason Andrew Tate is Wrong
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Sinead O'Connor, Cancel Culture, and Consistency
Sinead O’Connor has died at 56. Though a cause of death has not been formally confirmed, the presumption is suicide. In the public mind – particularly…
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The Rent is Always High: on the Cost of our Choices
My hometown, Carmel by-the-Sea is a very expensive place to live. It is expensive because it is beautiful, but also because the rent is very, very low…
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