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Thursday, March 19, 2026

ICE and the cops: how communities should take back power

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Cast your mind back to every Western you have ever seen. Most of them, I’d bet, featured or included a sheriff. The sheriff “kept the peace”...
Friday, March 13, 2026

On poems

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  I like a poem that, at some point, I can say to myself. That moment of saying the poem to oneself is not all a poem is about, but without ...

Centro-Scriptorium: a poem

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  Centro-scriptorium « … du centro-scriptorium, c'est-à-dire de l'endroit d'où partent les impulsions centro-motrices qui occasi...
Tuesday, March 10, 2026

Reading Andrew O'Hagan's Stay Classy, in the LRB, about Prince Andrew

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  Victoria Hervey, Epstein friend, English MAGA supporter, was simply saying what the Epstein crime class believes when she responded to O...
Monday, March 09, 2026

All that Fall by Jérémie Foa or: voices from the pit

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  1.  The process by which a historian becomes a superstar is determined by the zeitgeist - that is, by factors that are often outside the ...
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Sunday, March 08, 2026

Peter Baker crawls out from under his rock

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  Vacay is over. Trieste, I must tell you all about Trieste! But then there is coming back to this period of absolute shittiness. I'm no...
Thursday, March 05, 2026

The part where we are fucked

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  The beginning of this pirate raid is going to plan, with Democrats assuming the Daschle position – a sort of pro-Israel whiffle bound to p...