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July 19, 2022

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Netflix’s Persuasion Is a Uniquely Brilliant Flavor of Bad
A new Jane Austen adaptation dares to ask: What if “Persuasion” took place not just in the early nineteenth century but at wine o’clock?
by Philippa Snow
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“The Great Experiment” flatters liberal readers that by expressing their distaste for cancel culture, they have become diverse democracy’s most gallant defenders. 
by Ian Beacock
From the Archives:
The resort’s real magic lies in the powers it’s afforded by a special district. 

by The Politics of Everything
Lazy assumptions about young and old cloud our politics.

by James Chappel
A 1926 meditation on the difference between movies and literature.
by Virginia Woolf
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