Tag: longreads
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A Biblical Mystery at Oxford
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Is The Original New Testament Lost? :: A Dialogue with Dr. Bart Ehrman & Dr. Daniel Wallace An evening of scholarly dialogue on the origins, the transmission, and the reliability of the New Testament. Do we have the original manuscripts? Can we trus… via YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kg-dJA3SnTA
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The Naval Academy’s War With a Professor Who Sends Shirtless Pics, Offends Women and Minorities—and Somehow Came Out on Top
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The Naval Academy’s War With a Professor Who Sends Shirtless Pics, Offends Women and Minorities—and Somehow Came Out on Top – Washingtonian The US Merit Systems Protection Board—the judicial dustbin where the United States does battle with employees it wants to fire—is one building no bureaucrat ever wants to see. The jig may well be…
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Inside the Revolts Erupting in America’s Big Newsrooms
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Inside the Revolts Erupting in America’s Big Newsrooms (Published 2020) Staff members’ demands helped end the tenure of James Bennet as Opinion editor of The New York Times. And they are generating tension at The Washington Post. Part of the story starts in Ferguson, Mo. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/07/business/media/new-york-times-washington-post-protests.html
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The Messengers – One Small Magazine’s Fight for the Indian Mind
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Link: https://www.vqronline.org/reporting-articles/2020/06/messengers?src=longreads
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History Will Judge the Complicit
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History Will Judge the Complicit Why have Republican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an immoral and dangerous president? via The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/07/trumps-collaborators/612250/
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Untangling Andy Warhol
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Untangling Andy Warhol The Pop iconoclast obsessively documented his life, but he also lied constantly, almost recreationally, Joan Acocella writes. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/06/08/untangling-andy-warhol
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Is Zero Hedge a Russian Trojan Horse? The father of the founder of the conspiratorial site filed a criminal complaint against me in Bulgaria. Then things got weird. via The New Republic: https://newrepublic.com/article/156788/zero-hedge-russian-trojan-horse?utm_content=buffer0e705&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
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Every Inch of Earth
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Every Inch of Earth Sebastian Meyer and Kamaran Najm co-founded a photo agency in Iraq and teamed up to document a new era in Kurdistan, a region with a long history of suffering. Until Kamaran was captured by ISIS. via Guernica: https://www.guernicamag.com/every-inch-of-earth/
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Arundhati Roy: ‘The pandemic is a portal’
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Arundhati Roy: ‘The pandemic is a portal’ | Free to read The novelist on how coronavirus threatens India — and what the country, and the world, should do next Link: https://www.ft.com/content/10d8f5e8-74eb-11ea-95fe-fcd274e920ca
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A $60 Billion Housing Grab by Wall Street
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A $60 Billion Housing Grab by Wall Street (Published 2020) Hundreds of thousands of single-family homes are now in the hands of giant companies — squeezing renters for revenue and putting the American dream even further out of reach. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/04/magazine/wall-street-landlords.html
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No One Had Instincts Like Fred Willard
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No One Had Instincts Like Fred Willard All along, Willard’s instincts as an actor made us feel better about our own, by showing us characters who are even more absurd than we are. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/no-one-had-instincts-like-fred-willard
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Since I Met Edward Snowden, I’ve Never Stopped Watching My Back
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Since I Met Edward Snowden, I’ve Never Stopped Watching My Back After receiving a trove of documents from the whistleblower, I found myself under surveillance and investigation by the U.S. government. via The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/06/edward-snowden-operation-firstfruits/610573/
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The Twilight of the Iranian Revolution
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The Twilight of the Iranian Revolution For decades, Ayatollah Khamenei has professed enmity with America. Now his regime is threatened from within the country. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/05/25/the-twilight-of-the-iranian-revolution
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The Great Buenos Aires Bank Heist
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The Real-Life Bank Heist that Reads Like an Oceans 11 Sequel An all-star crew, a plan that tricked the police, and a successful getaway that left them with a fortune. But no one expected what happened next. via GQ: https://www.gq.com/story/the-great-buenos-aires-bank-heist
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The Devastating Decline of a Brilliant Young Coder
Lee Holloway programmed internet security firm Cloudflare into being. But then he became apathetic, distant, and unpredictable—for a long time, no one could make sense of it. The Devastating Decline of a Brilliant Young Coder
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Quotes
Norman Ornstein, a political scientist specializing in congressional matters at the conservative-leaning American Enterprise Institute, told me that he has known every Senate Majority Leader in the past fifty years, and that McConnell “will go down in history as one of the most significant people in destroying the fundamentals of our constitutional democracy.” He continued,…
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You’ve never owned a camera.
I have no interest in taking pictures. Who cares? What’s the point? Larry David
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The Accusations Were Lies. But Could We Prove It?
When the university told my wife about the sexual-harassment complaints against her, we knew they weren’t true. We had no idea how strange the truth really was. The Accusations Were Lies. But Could We Prove It?
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How Saudi Arabia Infiltrated Twitter
“Proactive and reactively we will delete evil my brother.” https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alexkantrowitz/how-saudi-arabia-infiltrated-twitter