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February 2023
Helen Gym's Union League Gaffe
A problematic cocktail party, "white Philly progressives," and the spectre of anti-Blackness
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Nick Russo
January 2023
Andrew Callaghan Allegations
Is there no one pure in this world?
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Nick Russo
They Will Come for Andrew Callaghan
Callaghan has begun to poke the only beast that can stop his rise: a politically connected corporate media hell-bent on self-preservation.
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Nick Russo
1
December 2022
Unscattering
A very personal essay // the long view, past and future
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Nick Russo
4
November 2022
Dirtbags and Bluenoses
Elephants and donkeys are out. Welcome to the new American divide // Also: smoking an ounce for Stephen Hawking, or, shitposting toward utopia
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Nick Russo
2
Book Review: Where I Was From
My losing entry for Freddie deBoer's book review contest // more Didion criticism
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Nick Russo
October 2022
The White Dead Dawn
A critique of Joan Didion's "wagon-train morality"
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Nick Russo
2
September 2022
The Kids Are Not Alright
Dispatch from the fringes of Philly's crisis of youth violence
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Nick Russo
3
Gen Zero
Coming of age in post-Trump America // Sane rogue intellects against the world // Andrew Callaghan and journalistic integrity in the age of the internet
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Nick Russo
August 2022
Hazel Motes and The Hunger
Putting Flannery O'Connor and Contrapoints in dialogue
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Nick Russo
June 2022
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