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When the women in your family go nuts
Obligatory “not all” caveats: In this piece I’m going to be talking about women specifically.
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Josh Slocum
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Did you see her or not?
There's a scene in The Exorcist that captures what it feels like to live in an unreal world where people refuse to see the truth even when they've…
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Josh Slocum
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Sympathy for the devil
and none for those who defend you against him
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Josh Slocum
32
What I Saw in the Debate
A story from when I was 13 years old.
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Josh Slocum
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Bitter from the sweet
Lisa and I were sitting on the floor futon in our living room in Syracuse in 1995 with our nightly Molson Goldens and a tape from Blockbuster.
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Josh Slocum
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How do you talk to God?
I’m going to risk it, because I’d really like to talk to people about this.
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Josh Slocum
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Anti-woke discontents
This won’t be polished, but here it goes.
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Josh Slocum
31
Our original sin is a sham
One of the West’s fundamental psychological derangements is almost never named and described for what it is.
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Josh Slocum
28
An emotion I can't name
“They’re just junk made in Hong Kong, you know,” my mother said, dragging on her Merit Ultra-Light 100 as she sorted whites from colored over the…
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Josh Slocum
45
When the women in your life lose their minds
This is a republication of an article from December 6, 2024.
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Josh Slocum
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Democrats Who Want to 'Listen' Now
This is a response to a piece by Ed Warren over on the blog Persuasion.
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Josh Slocum
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Glenn Greenwald, Gays, and Fabulous Lies
Context: This is a short essay I wrote on Twitter.
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Josh Slocum
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