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<title><![CDATA[Lee Siegel - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/19203.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Lee Siegel]]></description><category domain="19203">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Liberal Indignation at SCOTUS Ruling Is Undermining Democracy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newstatesman.com/world/americas/north-america/us/2024/07/on-the-edge-of-chaos-donald-trump-supreme-court</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Lee Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Liberal indignation at the Supreme Court decision to grant Donald Trump immunity is undermining democracy.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Montclair's Morass of Greed and Dysfunction]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/montclairs-morass-of-greed-and-dysfunction</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jun 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Lee Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Recently, my family watched on our local cable channel as one child and parent after another took the microphone at a town council meeting in the bustling New Jersey town where we live. The families implored, sometimes tearfully, the mayor and the council members seated before them to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democracy Under Siege?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/democracy-under-siege</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Lee Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Parsing the New York Times's obsession with alarmism]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Antidepressants, Empathy and the American Way of Life]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/antidepressants-empathy-and-democracy</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Lee Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Is the American way of life threatened by the growing proportion of citizens taking psychiatric medications?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Don't You Have To Do Something Heroic to Be a Hero?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/dont-you-have-to-do-something-heroic-to-be-a-hero</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 03 Sep 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Lee Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Are you feeling dismayed by America'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s internal divisions, soaring crime rates, heedless personal behavior, and general coarsening of society? Cheer up. One positive development is that apparently more heroes are living among us than in any country at any time in history.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Prayer: Ego's Opposite]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/prayer-egos-opposite</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 20 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Lee Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The practice runs against every instinct of self-advancement and self-involvement'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'no wonder liberal society scorns it.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Liberal Pieties, Illiberal Consequences]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/norman-mailer-on-liberal-pieties</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Lee Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We can fight censorious certitude by allowing for moral complexity.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Year Zero: The Roots of the Woke Revolution]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/the-roots-of-the-woke-revolution</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Lee Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On the day in March that eight people were murdered in a massage parlor in Atlanta, six of them Asian-American, a Cherokee County, Georgia, police captain gave a media briefing after the alleged murderer was caught. He described the suspect'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s motivation as follows: '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'He was...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The New York Times's Blindness to What It's Become]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/on-the-new-york-times-blindness-to-what-it-has-become</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Lee Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Psychologists define projection as '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'the defense mechanism by which unacceptable psychological impulses and traits in oneself are attributed to others.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Proust evoked it in lyrical fashion: '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'It is the tragedy of other people that they are merely showcases for the very...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Lionel Trilling's Warning]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/lionel-trillings-warning</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 29 May 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Lee Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As the great literary critic cautioned more than a half century ago, liberals increasingly reduce a complex world to black and white.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Paranoid Style in Progressive Politics]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/the-paranoid-style-in-progressive-politics?wallit_nosession=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Lee Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Its attempts to pathologize every instance of Republican opposition to the Democratic program say much about the Left's own anxieties.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What's 'Normal' in America?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/whats-normal-in-america</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Lee Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A Simon and Schuster petition reveals the confusions of the woke movement that inspired it.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Roth, His Biographer, and Liberal Hypocrisy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/philip-roth-blake-bailey-liberal-hypocrisy</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Lee Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On the contradictions between woke elites'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' proclamations and their behavior]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[For Liberals, Is It Time to Move to Norway?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/13/opinion/is-it-time-to-move-to-norway.html?ref=todayspaper</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 14 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Selling of Donald J. Trump]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/10/opinion/campaign-stops/the-selling-of-donald-j-trump.html?ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 10 Sep 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Lee Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In their struggle to understand the Trump phenomenon, establishment pundits, political scientists and millions of flabbergasted American voters have settled on a long list of sober-sounding socioeconomic explanations: Deindustrialization. Anomie. Racial animosity. The rising up of a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Welcome to the Age of the Unfunny Joke]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/20/opinion/sunday/welcome-to-the-age-of-the-unfunny-joke.html?ref=opinion&amp;_r=1&amp;mtrref=undefined&amp;gwh=9EAA75A67549BC68C3350D051397DFA0&amp;gwt=pay&amp;assetType=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Lee Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The first half of Tig Notaro'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s new comedy special, which was released in August on HBO, included jokes about swimming with gastrointestinal distress and a confused airport security worker. The crowd laughed with delight. Then, more than halfway through the show, Ms. Notaro removed...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why I Defaulted on My Student Loans]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/opinion/sunday/why-i-defaulted-on-my-student-loans.html?_r=0</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Lee Siegel</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[America the Vulgar]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304451904579238140379017148</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 07 Dec 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Who Ruined the Humanities?]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323823004578595803296798048.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Lee Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[You've probably heard the baleful reports. The number of college students majoring in the humanities is plummeting, according to a big study released last month by the American Academy of Arts &amp; Sciences. The news has provoked a flood of high-minded essays deploring the development as a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[From Tony Soprano to Chris Christie]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/20/opinion/from-tony-soprano-to-chris-christie.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 22 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Lee Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[By the time he had established himself as Tony Soprano, a small-time gangster of mythic proportions, I knew it was Jersey speaking to me through the magnetic torment of his persona. Above all else, Mr. Gandolfini helped America understand Jersey, and Jersey understand itself. There is a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Pagan Cult of Reagan]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/05/26/blood-for-sale-ronald-reagan-s-pagan-cult.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Lee Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Like Christ throwing the moneylenders out of the temple, Reagan signed into law a tax cut that forever changed American life. It created a stratum of moneyed elite that, finally, in relieved conservative eyes, could compete with the liberal cultural elite that had always oppressed...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Death of a Salesman's Dreams]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/03/opinion/death-of-a-salesmans-dreams.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Lee Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[While '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Death of a Salesman'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' has consolidated its prestige as an exposure of middle-class delusions, the American middle class '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' as a social reality and a set of admirable values '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' has nearly ceased to exist.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Romney's Canny, Winning Strategy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/02/26/mitt-romney-is-a-canny-politician-doing-what-s-necessary-to-survive-the-primaries.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 26 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Lee Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Here's an outrageous proposition. The Republican primary race is not chaos, or a clown show, or a travesty of the political process. It is going exactly as it was meant to go.Mitt Romney addresses the Detroit Economic Club on Feb. 24, Jeff Kowalsky, EPA / LandvoHere's another one. Mitt...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama, The Un-Decider]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-11-20/obama-the-un-decider/?cid=hp:mainpromo6</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Lee Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Carly Fiorina's Cancer Warning by Dana GoldsteinHot Topics: Galleries, Sarah Palin, Big Fat Story, Giving Beast, Hungry Beast, Art BeastEnter your email address:Enter the recipients' email addresses, separated by commas:Message:																											Feng Li / Getty...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Nobel Gone Nuts]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-10-09/the-problem-is-the-prize/?cid=hp:mainpromo3</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Lee Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[He Won What?! Daily Beast Contributors Weigh In on the Nobel WinHot Topics: Photo Galleries, Big Fat Story, Health Care, Hungry Beast, Art BeastEnter your email address:Enter the recipients' email addresses, separated by commas:Message: 																											Getty Images; AP Photo...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Where's Hollywood on Healthcare?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-10-02/wheres-health-cares-star-power/?cid=hp:justposted6</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Lee Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[How David Letterman Made Me Famous by Paul ShafferHot Topics: Photo Galleries, Big Fat Story, Health Care, Hungry Beast, Art BeastEnter your email address:Enter the recipients' email addresses, separated by commas:Message:																											Kevork Djansezian / AP...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Obama the New Nixon?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-09-15/is-obama-the-new-nixon/?cid=hp:mainpromo5</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Lee Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In Sexy Beast: Live from the New York Fashion Week RunwaysHot Topics: U.S. Open, Big Fat Story, Health Care, Hungry Beast, Art BeastEnter your email address:Enter the recipients' email addresses, separated by commas:Message: 																											Getty Images...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Euthanasia Mistake]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-08-11/obamas-euthanasia-mistake/?cid=bsa:archive4</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Lee Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Meghan McCain Tells Michelle Malkin: I Won't Shut UpHot Topics: Skip Gates Arrest, Health Care, Art Beast, Hungry Beast, Fashion BeastEnter your email address:Enter the recipients' email addresses, separated by commas:Message:																																								The president'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s...]]></description>
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