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June 2025

The Art The New Yorker Thinks You Ought To Enjoy
Part of my ongoing research project on what the elite leftosphere thinks the rest of us might find interesting, plus some additional observations about…
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Bureaucratic Masters
And a few other things besides...
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A Bunch of Images I Like
Putting them here because my pile of them is getting too large and I want to share
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The Decline of Trust
And a bunch of extraneous matter
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May 2025

School's Out!
[A lovely painting encountered a few weeks ago on the wall of a local Mexican restaurant]
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The MAGA Springsteen
Up today at the Chronicles site.
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The Benefits of DEI? Not So Much...
[Why don’t they just forget about the ladders and the crude effort to re-engineer the natural shape of the tree and instead climb the tree to get at the…
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Houellebecq's Final Novel?
A review of that one and one other by MH
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The Diversity Revolution in Online Media Representations
Something recently up at Chronicles on the diversity revolution in online media representations. My original version pasted in below because it has more…
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Rowena
[Louis Janmot, detail from Rayons de soleil, itself one piece of a large collection of works he completed between 1835 and 1855 and titled Le Poème de…
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