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Why The Onion Shouldn't Have Apologized For "Offensive" Oscar Tweet
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The Onion has issued an apology for the following tweet, which has since been taken: Nine-year-old Quvenzhané Wallis was in the running last night for the Best Actress Oscar. Though she lost out to Jennifer Lawrence and her performance in Silver…
Scientology Beliefs: Inside the Mind Of L. Ron Hubbard
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Going Clear by Lawrence Wright is largely a history of both the Church of Scientology and the one and only L. Ron Hubbard, its eccentric and obtuse founder. It also explores the membership of some of Scientology’s most well-known followers, like…
Punishing Kiriakou: A Case For Discretion in Democracy
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The New York Time's January 6 late edition led off with “From Spy to Source to Convict,” a story by reporter Scott Shane about former-CIA operative John Kiriakou, who Friday will begin to serve a 30-month prison sentence for being “the first current…
Both Flesh and Not Review: David Foster Wallace and Death By Depression
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Much like the travesty of me and Hitch, my newfound hero of journalism and intelligent conversation, I hadn't known anything about the late David Foster Wallace before his death (by hanging, in 2008). I hadn't read any of his novels, and admittedly,…
Of Africa Wole Soynika: Today's World is Nowhere Near Post-Racial
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To review a book about Africa while knowing very little of Africa is at once a gift and a curse. My response, both in writing and in thought, is by default, limited in breadth and in depth; I happen to be suspended at a distance better suited for…
Dwarf Book Tiffanie Didonato: One Woman's Journey Through Bone Lengthening Surgery
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Prior to Dwarf: A Memoir, the only book I ever bothered to read about “little people” was The Hobbit. Unlike The Hobbit, Dwarf is not epic medieval fantasy, nor is it about hobbits or “actual” dwarves, neither of which exist ... I think. It’s rather…
Chuck Thompson in Better Off Without Em: Book is a Lazy and Cynical Story About the South
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The first book I reviewed for PolicyMic was America, You Sexy Bitch (AYSB) by conservative Meghan McCain and liberal Michael Ian Black. Politically at odds with each other, the Senator’s daughter and the stand-up comedian take a road trip across the…
Vagina Review: What Men Do Not Understand About Women and Feminism, Could Make Sex a Whole Lot Better
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A- [Puns are almost completely unavoidable when discussing a book about vaginas, so please bear with me — and pardon any accidental (and purely coincidental) misspellings of “come”.] When I was in elementary school (before I could figure out my…
Intelligence Squared Debate: Are Islamists or Dictators Better Leaders For the Middle East
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Intelligence Squared US (IQ2 US), an English import, was founded in 2006 by Robert Rosenkranz, a philanthropist and CEO (of Delphi Financial Group), with the goal of providing a forum for “intelligent discussion, grounded in facts and informed by…
Liberal Democracy Yields Public Stupidity: Defending Politics Book Review
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A- Last May, well before I started reviewing books for PolicyMic, Oxford University Press published Defending Politics: Why Democracy Matters in the Twenty-First Century by Matthew Flinders, a politics professor at the University of Sheffield. I…