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The Horses are Already Frightened: How a Hockey Game Makes Me Rethink my Libertarian Instincts
“Chug, chug, chug!” The chanted exhortation, a staple of fraternity parties and hen nights, echoes through Crypto.com arena. The screens that hang over…
Hugo Schwyzer
Jan 16
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How You Feel Now is Not How You Will Feel Always: Prince Harry, the Pitfalls of Memoir, and the Ethics of the Ghostwriter
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…
Hugo Schwyzer
Jan 8
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December 2022
The Place Where We Can Always Start Over
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…
Hugo Schwyzer
Dec 28, 2022
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How Do We Know What Home Is?
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
Dec 22, 2022
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There is Always a Next Right Thing: on Leaving Trader Joe's to be a Full-Time Writer
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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Dec 14, 2022
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The Rich Can Afford a Graceful Cancellation: A Response to David French
In his Sunday column, the conservative commentator David French considers Hugh Freeze, the new head football coach at Auburn University. Freeze has been…
Hugo Schwyzer
Dec 5, 2022
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November 2022
My Top Ten Songs of 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…
Hugo Schwyzer
Nov 30, 2022
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Finite Glories: Fighting for Taylor Tickets
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…
Hugo Schwyzer
Nov 18, 2022
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Will the GOP Learn the Lombardo Lesson? Nevada, Abortion, and Liberty
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…
Hugo Schwyzer
Nov 13, 2022
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Decorum and a Consistent Ethic of Liberty: Three Quick Thoughts on the Midterms
Far wiser observers of the scene have better election post-mortems, so I’ll restrict myself to three observations about yesterday’s surprising midterms…
Hugo Schwyzer
Nov 9, 2022
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Ron DeSantis and Recovered Memory Madness
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…
Hugo Schwyzer
Nov 7, 2022
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No One Wants a Pandemic Amnesty. That's a Mistake.
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
Nov 1, 2022
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No One Wants a Pandemic Amnesty. That's a Mistake.
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