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<title><![CDATA[Lionel Shriver - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/21350.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Lionel Shriver]]></description><category domain="21350">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Will I Be Arrested Next?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/09/04/will-i-be-arrested-next-after-graham-linehan/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Lionel Shriver</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If police are stalking airports for anyone who's disparaged the 'trans community', then am I safe to fly back to the UK?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Recovering From the Woke Brain Rot]]></title>
							<link>https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/12/20/we-may-finally-be-recovering-from-the-woke-brain-rot/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 21 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Lionel Shriver</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For the first time in decades, the sane among us have the upper hand.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Sally Rooney's Literary Mob--Count Me Out]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thefp.com/p/sally-rooneys-literary-mob-groupthink-israel-hebrew-translations-boycott</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 28 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Lionel Shriver</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A group of celebrated writers is calling for a boycott of the Israeli publishing industry. Count me out.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[PEN America Rewards Cowardice]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thefp.com/p/lionel-shriver-pen-america-rewards</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Lionel Shriver</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We live in a world where an organization established for the defense of free speech is expected to openly advocate for Hamas.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is There Such Thing as a Fair Trump Trial?]]></title>
							<link>https://thespectator.com/topic/such-thing-trump-fair-trial/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 02 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Lionel Shriver</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's doubtful that Donald J. Trump can get a genuinely fair trial anywhere in the country. Everyone has an opinion on him]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Feelings That Guide the Left]]></title>
							<link>https://thespectator.com/topic/feelings-that-guide-left/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 24 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Lionel Shriver</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Does this clamorous crowd seem happy? Is the left enraptured by visions of a better world? The answer is no]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Trans Kids Madness Needs To Stop]]></title>
							<link>https://thespectator.com/topic/the-trans-kids-madness-needs-to-stop/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 10 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Lionel Shriver</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I'm still not proud that I kept my journalistic mouth shut for three years regarding the madness of the trans movement]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dylan Mulvaney? What Are Marketing People Thinking?]]></title>
							<link>https://thespectator.com/topic/woke-capitalism-war-bottom-line-budweiser-dylan-mulvaney/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 20 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Lionel Shriver</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Look, I know we're all sick to the back teeth of the word 'woke', but at least it's uni-syllabic and punchy]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Zero Interest Rates Should Never Have Become the Norm]]></title>
							<link>https://thespectator.com/topic/zero-interest-rates-economy-jerome-powell/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 25 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Lionel Shriver</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank is the direct result of poor preparation for a steep rise in interest rates]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Some Words Actually Worth Banning]]></title>
							<link>https://thespectator.com/life/words-actually-worth-banning/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 06 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Lionel Shriver</author>
							<description><![CDATA['Minoritized communities,' 'neurodiverse,' 'heteronormative,' 'Black and brown bodies' and other words well worth banning]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Cowardice Is Everywhere in Publishing]]></title>
							<link>https://thespectator.com/book-and-art/cowardice-everywhere-publishing/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Lionel Shriver</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The feminization of publishing has diminished the industry's boldness. Women are less likely than men to take a chance that might backfire]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Our Ukrainian Optimism Misplaced?]]></title>
							<link>https://thespectator.com/topic/ukraine-optimism-misplaced/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Lionel Shriver</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Optimism can be surprisingly hilarious. In my last novel, two spouses agree to quit the planet once they've both turned eighty]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How We Created a Self-Hating Generation]]></title>
							<link>https://unherd.com/2023/01/how-we-created-a-self-hating-generation/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Lionel Shriver</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I submit: the traditional concept of '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'building character'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' is out the window.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America Has Betrayed Its Young]]></title>
							<link>https://spectatorworld.com/topic/america-betrayed-young-mental-health-higher-education/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Lionel Shriver</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The US is breaking its implicit contract with young people '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' the promise that if they work hard and follow the rules, they will be rewarded]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats and the Trouble With Casual Stereotyping]]></title>
							<link>https://spectatorworld.com/topic/supreme-court-trouble-affirmative-action/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Lionel Shriver</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Unless she is quite elderly, any black female jurist was educated during America's half-century of affirmative action]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Covid Pantomime at My Father's Memorial]]></title>
							<link>https://spectatorworld.com/life/covid-pantomime-father-memorial/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Lionel Shriver</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When sharing memories at my father's memorial, I was disheartened to look out on isolated clumps of mourners anonymized by facial swaddling]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Illegal Immigration Is Biden's Achilles Heel]]></title>
							<link>https://spectatorworld.com/topic/immigration-joe-biden-achilles-heel/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Lionel Shriver</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Unchecked immigration is already the Achilles heel of this presidency. Joe Biden has reversed virtually all Trump's more restrictive policies]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Who Fears a Society That Hates Itself?]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.us/topic/fears-society-hates-itself-race/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Lionel Shriver</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Board members, university administrators and pundits compete with one another over who can denounce their disgusting society with more fervor]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Beware the Left's Linguistic Trojan Horse]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.us/topic/beware-linguistic-trojan-horse-dictionaries/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Lionel Shriver</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Access to older analogue dictionaries has become politically invaluable. Pre-internet, august dictionaries function as linguistic anchors]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[No One Wins in the Race Race]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.us/wins-race-identity-biden-administration/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Lionel Shriver</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The media overwhelmingly celebrated Sen. Kamala Harris not for her accomplishments or her politics, but for her sex and race]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Never Has a Virus Been So Oversold]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.us/never-virus-been-oversold/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Lionel Shriver</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Astonishingly, Americans believed that the COVID-19 virus has killed nine percent of their compatriots, or almost 30 million people!]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Vanity of Liberal Whites Making a Spectacle of Shame]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.us/the-vanity-of-white-guilt/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Lionel Shriver</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Though the concept of 'white guilt' has been with us since the 1960s, it's seen a fashionable resurgence in the wake of the George Floyd protests last month]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Extended Lockdowns Are a Manmade Disaster]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.us/natural-disaster-manmade-united-kingdom-costly/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Lionel Shriver</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I predict that few of the tedious, costly, time-consuming measures about to be levied on the British public in the coming months will be based on science]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[I'm Shaken--and Not Because I'm Afraid of Getting Sick]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.us/longer-lockdown-continues-imperiled/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Lionel Shriver</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We're flirting not merely with recession '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' we should be so lucky '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' but with a potentially self-sustaining depression. Society is truly imperiled]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The New Normal: Banishing the Work of Great Artists]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2019/01/19/by-banishing-the-work-of-great-artists-we-are-punishing-everyone/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Lionel Shriver</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Is the cultural oblivion of comic Roseanne Barr, actor Kevin Spacey and comic Louis C.K. really necessary?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Racial Blending Undermine Identity Politics? Let's Hope]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.us/racial-blending-identity-politics/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Lionel Shriver</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s not only right-wing reprobates who recoil from demographic changes]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Men Should Be Mad About #MeToo]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.us/2018/09/men-mad-metoo/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Lionel Shriver</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the take-no-prisoners world of #MeToo, there'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s only one side. All women are victims and all women are truthful.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can You Prove You're Not a Racist?]]></title>
							<link>https://usa.spectator.co.uk/2018/04/can-you-prove-youre-not-a-racist/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://usa.spectator.co.uk/2018/04/can-you-prove-youre-not-a-racist/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Lionel Shriver</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After an essay in this month's Prospect about literature and freedom of speech, it seems I was cited on Twitter as a 'racist provocateur'. Now, I rather fancy being a 'provocateur'. But as for the'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¦').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[13 Bold Women Challenge #Metoo Campaign]]></title>
							<link>http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/meet-the-women-worried-about-metoo/20639#.Wjf_srenGUk</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 18 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Lionel Shriver</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I am concerned that we are throwing knee-touching into the same basket as rape, which does a grievous disservice to mere knee-touchers and rape victims both. I am concerned that we are increasingly wont to confuse genuine abuse of power in the workplace with often distant memories of men...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will the Left Survive the Millennials?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/23/opinion/will-the-left-survive-the-millennials.html?ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Lionel Shriver</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Midway through my opening address for the Brisbane Writers Festival earlier this month, Yassmin Abdel-Magied, a Sudanese-born Australian engineer and 25-year-old memoirist, walked out.]]></description>
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