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A fascinating and funny history of writers and stomach distress!

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From the Gut
By my late twenties, it had gotten so bad I could barely sleep. Many people toss and turn after, say, a baked brie or Blazin’ Buffalo Wings. But at twenty-eight, even less-quarrelsome foods—steak, car...
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August 6, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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4. "The Game Is Played With Great Feeling" (Joseph Earl Thomas)

"But this is no mere subculture story or travelogue. It’s a journey under the skin, an investigation of why the game has become such a specific kind of phenomenon."

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The Game Is Played With Great Feeling
In the back of an Uber creeping down Decatur Street, my driver, Ursa, this short-haired Black woman a generation above me, is reminiscing about last week’s Frankie Beverly concert, slowing down to rep...
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July 18, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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"But, as Nina Berman’s photographs of Columbia University show, what has been happening to the American academy these days is incommensurably worse." 2/2 www.vqronline.org/spring-2025/...
In the Hallowed Place Where There’s Only Darkness
For more than fifty years, I have been studying and writing about political repression and higher education, with a special emphasis on McCarthyism, long considered by historians to be the most seriou...
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July 11, 2025 at 3:06 AM