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They Will Hate You, but Tell the Story Anyway: Carolyn Bryant Donham, Emmett Till, and the Importance of Memoir
Carolyn Bryant Donham died on Wednesday, age 88.
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I Can No Longer Bear Playing the Part
Friends, and mama!
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Cormac McCarthy, His Young Muse, and a Return to Erotic Common Sense
Hi!
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A Different Moral Universe: Dating Apps and the Political Divide
Behold:
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"Come Where You're Appreciated": Politics and Open Doors after Cancellation
On November 1, 1986, late in the fall semester of my sophomore year at Berkeley, the California Golden Bears fired head football coach Joe Kapp.
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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.
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Why I Stopped Sleeping With Students -- and Why I Went Back
An earlier version of this ran on Medium in 2017 — and attracted such violently negative attention that I had to take it down.
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No, You Don't Get to Reveal Private Emails, Even if They Were from J.D. Vance
The New York Times today: JD Vance, an Unlikely Friendship and Why It Ended.
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The Boys Are, in Fact, Okay
Heloise slams her bedroom door. She’s had a quarrel with a friend, and it has snowballed as these things will, and now other girls are involved and…
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I Really Wanted Popular Kids
Saturday afternoon, I drive my son to the Century City Mall, where will meet up with some friends.
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I Wish I Could Convince You to be Curious -- and to go Out on Dates.
I do not charge for subscriptions but I welcome the occasional tip.
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Divorce, again.
Victoria and I have separated.
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