David Roman
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I wrote this five years ago. Today we heard the screams. lithub.com/in-patriarch...
In Patriarchy No One Can Hear You Scream: Rebecca Solnit on Jeffrey Epstein and the Silencing Machine
One of my favorite books when I was young was T. H. White’s The Once and Future King, and one of its central themes is the attempt of King Arthur to replace an ethos of “might is right” with someth…
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September 3, 2025 at 4:25 PM
I wrote this five years ago. Today we heard the screams. lithub.com/in-patriarch...
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April 18, 2025
April 18, 2025
Tonight I had the extraordinary privilege of speaking at the anniversary of the lighting of the lanterns in Boston’s Old North Church, which happened 250 years ago tonight.
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April 19, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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March 18, 2025
On Saturday, U.S.
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March 19, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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lol, from UK satirical magazine Private Eye
March 7, 2025 at 9:12 PM
lol, from UK satirical magazine Private Eye
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New York Times, Jan. 26, 1935.
March 2, 2025 at 4:46 PM
New York Times, Jan. 26, 1935.
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A lesson in how claims of meritocracy as justification for opposing DEI are often cover for the demand that we return to a system of preference for white men - whatever their qualifications. Fire a qualified Black man. Hire a statutorily unqualified white man. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
February 22, 2025 at 3:03 PM
A lesson in how claims of meritocracy as justification for opposing DEI are often cover for the demand that we return to a system of preference for white men - whatever their qualifications. Fire a qualified Black man. Hire a statutorily unqualified white man. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general.
If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
February 17, 2025 at 2:17 PM
If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general.
If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
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There, there. Don't you fret. Just seven more years and it'll all be over.
YR4: the asteroid with a tiny chance of hitting Earth
The asteroid named YR4 has a 1% chance of hitting Earth in 2032
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February 3, 2025 at 7:51 PM
There, there. Don't you fret. Just seven more years and it'll all be over.
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