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Today: @continetti mourns the death of book editing; @SpencerKlavan dislikes the recent “East of Eden” adaptation; and @DavQuinn defends Irish nuns. Plus, @MattHennessey passes on a message from Mamdani on antisemitism.
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Mamdani Tackles Antisemitism
New York’s smiling socialist mayor is just the man for the job.
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Opposing immigration, illegal or otherwise, is a class signifier in Britain, and most middle-class people—including most politicians—aren’t prepared to support a political cause that would see them associated with the lower orders, writes @Louise_m_perry
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In 2024, the Biden administration broadened Title IX rules to include off-campus sexual assaults of students. No one can be surprised that the Trump administration has undone the little bit of progress that was so long in coming, writes Melinda Henneberger
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While Nikole Hannah-Jones admits she failed her daughter by sending her to a bad school, her family’s decadelong educational nightmare inspires no reassessment of her assumptions about education, writes @emmma_camp_
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This is a story about a Democratic Party that once promised the American people Four Freedoms, one of which was Freedom from Fear. That’s all gone now. The only thing FDR’s descendants have to run on in 2026 is fear itself, writes @MattHennessey
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The BBC story is embarrassingly retrograde—displaying outdated intellectual fashion—in its attempt to locate offenses against social justice in the decisions of individual women whether to paint their nails or not, writes @MeghanGurdon
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More than 30 years ago, the New York Police Department embraced the tactic known as the “stop-and-frisk.” It’s reckoned in certain circles as an injustice on the level of the internment of the Japanese during WWII, writes Edward Conlon
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If you think radio is dying like print journalism, you’re wrong. It’s thriving, writes @megan_pidcock
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If winning is all that matters, sportsmanship is dead. If sportsmanship is dead, everything is permitted. Charge it to the game, writes @MattHennessey
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We could replace land acknowledgments with invisible-hand acknowledgments. Isn’t that spirit of working together a nicer thing to contemplate than the history of conquest? asks @rkylesmith
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We should understand that the rise of liberal democracy correlated with the spread of the printed word, and that the collapse of our knowledge-making institutions is coterminous with a decline in literacy, writes @DrDominicGreen
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The backlash brewing against secularism comes amid a broader opposition to the ubiquity of the digital world. Any trend can be illusory, any cultural movement ephemeral. This one might stick around, writes @MJ_Koch
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An editor’s job is to tidy up a writer’s copy, smooth out his lines and remove the verbiage that obscures his meaning. The task is thankless. No one has ever finished a book and said, “Wow, that was really well-edited!”
My latest @WSJFreeEx
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The Bon Secours Sisters who ran the home stood condemned. They later apologized for any failings on their part. But the world assumed that the nuns were happy to see all these children die, writes @DavQuinn
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What happens when an antiracist journalist enrolls her child in a failing NYC public school? A frustrated teenager feels betrayed by her mother’s decision to give her a subpar education out of a vague loyalty to progressive ideals, writes @emmma_camp_
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As Steinbeck eloquently put it, the great theme of his book is good and evil. It is indeed the great theme of every lasting story, and of human life itself. It’s a shame Florence Pugh and Zoe Kazan can’t see that, writes @SpencerKlavan
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Cornell says that its own sanctions, following its Title IX investigation, included suspensions and expulsions, plus the assignment of now-infamous essays. The boys were made to write papers, writes Melinda Henneberger
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What marks the death of editing is pervasive disorganization, rambling narrative and maddening circularity. The reader seeking knowledge and understanding is met by the author with an apathetic shrug, writes @continetti
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While Americans sometimes like to pretend that their society is classless, in Britain that pretense is never attempted. Class suffuses everything in British life, and particularly politics, writes @Louise_m_perry
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With your help and enough time, I’m sure we can figure out a way to get New York to antisemitism level zero, writes @MattHennessey
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Who finds a naked girl in a bedroom at a frat house, surrounded by guys, and assumes nothing is amiss? asks @emmma_camp_
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