Richard Goldstein

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@cremieuxrecueil Factoid Factories

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@EWErickson @RameshPonnuru Given who the boss is, Dr. Mengle is a great physician.

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@weiss_hadas Definitely don't use the scare quotes. The only people who won't get the irony are academics, and that's part of the job description after all.

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@AstorAaron @NickyFrank30 You apparently don't have an aspiring teenaged socialist in the house.

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@JohnHMcWhorter "There are no African Americans in this photo," she said.

"The person at the center of the photo is black," I replied.

Without missing a beat: "He's not black enough."

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@JohnHMcWhorter A decade ago while a publication editor at a Florida law school, a professor told me that we should highlight our minorities more prominently in our communications. She held up our annual PR highlights book with a big spread of smiling students to illustrate her point.

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@hegesia_c @BohuslavskaKate @menefr1 No matter how deranged Trump behaves, Ferguson pretends its not happening or rationalizes it away.

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@wartranslated What is North Korea getting out of propping up Russia?

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@PriceLaurence @simon_schama @wmarybeard Gentlemen, I asked you here to show you the folly of the Persians, who came all this way to rob us of our poverty.

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@mattyglesias Homer saved the Trojan horse for A Tale of Two Cities

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@FlintDibble Well you sucked all the fun out of fake prehistoric civilizations.

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@GershomG @Noahpinion @Darhaneo In his Stalin biography, Stephen Kotkin says a proportional number of Kazakhs died as Ukrainians did in the Holodomor.

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@Sunil_2096 @JamesSurowiecki @KarlreMarks The game went from close with an English edge in attacking to utterly lopsided depending on the English goalie to make increasingly improbable saves every 3 minutes.

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@besttrousers @janecoaston You knew there would be trouble when Nolan decided to cast the Phaeacians as oompa loompas.

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@Shayan86 This was Napoleon's lament.

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@polanskydj @notarikon I love this. But did you notice that thousands of books wound up in his parents' foyer. Probably why they were not quoted.

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@theiaincameron @chefjoseandres They literally unified in 1580 so that might make this factoid -- unchanged border between two sovereign states -- void. For 60 years they were the same sovereign state.

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@JonahDispatch It used to take less time to arrive in the past.

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@Pergament_F You might be interested in this rather singular cultural artifact. A video of Christopher Plummer delivering a college lecture about the Metamorphosis in character as Vladimir Nabakov.
https://t.co/d5affE81Gz

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@AstorAaron @VerverkS People are starting to understand that now. Look at the buildup for tomorrow's 163rd anniversary of victory at the Siege of Vicksburg.