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Nature-loving mystic or proto-dudebro? Untameable free spirit or reclusive mama’s boy? On the centenary of his birth, it is time to look past the icon at the ‘bleeding ball of contradictions’ behind it
How the censorious Left strangles publishing houses.
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The Atlantic, Kaitlyn Tiffany writes, “This truth universally known but slightly less frequently acknowledged: Cutting off the front of your hair is the ultimate expression of self-delusion, a desperate attempt to right something deeply wrong—with a pair of scissors.” This piece was written pre-pandemic, before the time period when we had to give ourselves haircuts, if we wanted a haircut at all, but it speaks to that age old trope that bangs are a sign of desperation. The writer Allie Wach once went viral with the tweet, “personally i believe wanting bangs is almost never about wan...
I once witnessed, without meaning to, the unspooling of a young man into homelessness. I was in Spain, on the Camino, tucked into a hamlet on the side of a sweeping farm. That night, as we were making dinner in the communal kitchen, my cousin and I noticed someone sipping a beer, no food in sight, staring into the floor. My cousin spooned pasta onto three plates and beckoned him outside. As we sat on grass still warm from the sun, we began that tentative dip into conversation. This traveler, we’ll call him Sam, was from Limerick. His words were laden in an Irish accent, so thick at times th...