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<title><![CDATA[Adam Gopnik - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/21408.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Adam Gopnik]]></description><category domain="21408">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Why Trump Tore Down the East Wing]]></title>
							<link>https://archive.is/9V9LW</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Adam Gopnik</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The act of destruction is precisely the point: a kind of performance piece meant to display Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s arbitrary power over the Presidency, including its physical seat.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden's Invisible Ideology]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/bidens-invisible-ideology</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Adam Gopnik</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The President has deployed an exasperating but effective strategy to counter Trumpism.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Reflecting on What Liberty Means in 2021]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/celebrating-the-fourth-with-a-little-liberty</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Adam Gopnik</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The arrival on Ellis Island of a little-sister statue from France offers a moment to reflect on what liberty means in 2021.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Return of Mass Shootings]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-return-of-mass-shootings</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Adam Gopnik</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Will there be a way forward this time?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Politics, Protests and Pandemics]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Adam Gopnik</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s odd to know, as a citizen of your own time, what future historians will argue about it, but not to know what they will say about it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and, even odder, what they ought to say about it. We should, after all, be experts on our own experience; yet we aren'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t. In a way, this...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Can Liberalism Learn From the Defeat of Trump?]]></title>
							<link>https://outline.com/tXULuX</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Adam Gopnik</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Liberalism persists in the insistence that extreme irrationalities of nationalism and ethnic tribalism can be placated by this economic policy or that new bill. They can'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t.Photograph by Joe Raedle / Getty'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What We Get Wrong About America's Crisis of Democracy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/01/04/what-we-get-wrong-about-americas-crisis-of-democracy</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Adam Gopnik</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The interesting question is not what causes authoritarianism but what has ever suspended it.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democracy Depends on Good Losers]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/democracy-depends-on-good-losers</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Adam Gopnik</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It is not a norm but a premise of Presidential elections to concede when you have lost.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Impeaching Trump Was, Despite It All, Essential]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 08 Feb 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Adam Gopnik</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The purpose of impeachment was never political. It was never meant to be undertaken, and never should have been undertaken, with an eye to the Democrats being in a better political position after it was over.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Stop Saying That Impeachment Is Political]]></title>
							<link>https://outline.com/8mD9TU</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 29 Nov 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Adam Gopnik</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One of the things often heard about impeachment is that it is essentially a political process. This seeming truth is said with a kind of sleepy sapience, as though only the na'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¯').';'ve or the self-deluded would imagine anything otherwise.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Another Look at Impeachment, After the Mueller Report]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/another-look-at-impeachment-after-the-mueller-report</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Adam Gopnik</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Mueller report is a powerful and positive document, because it is written testimony to the liberal faith in the power of rules and systems to bring order and justice.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Pro and Cons of Impeaching Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/03/18/the-pros-and-cons-of-impeaching-trump</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 10 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Adam Gopnik</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Real and reasonable arguments among congressional Democrats'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and, indeed, among the public'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'range from the practical to the procedural.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Wine, War, Donald Trump and Emmanuel Macron]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/wine-war-donald-trump-and-emmanuel-macron</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Adam Gopnik</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With respect to the French President Emmanuel Macron and France, Donald Trump seems incapable of understanding the concept of an alliance at all.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Trudeau Is Able to Stand Up to Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/why-justin-trudeau-is-able-to-stand-up-to-donald-trump</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jun 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Adam Gopnik</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Justin Trudeau'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s recent rebuke of Donald Trump at the G-7 summit, made it plain that he and his country were not about to be bullied by the American President, not on a question of unilateral tariffs, not about anything.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Tweets Are Ridiculous, But Perilous to Ignore]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/trumps-tweets-are-ridiculous-but-perilous-to-ignore</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Adam Gopnik</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For those seeking consolation in a crazy time, two views about Donald Trump have emerged, which intersect even as they oppose. The first is that, if you ignore the tweets and the talking, what you'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re seeing in Trump is a completely conventional Republican'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'which is good! The...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Raining on Trump's Parade]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/raining-on-trumps-parade</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Adam Gopnik</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' of the less pleasant tasks that we all have can be trying to maintain our intellectual integrity when it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s challenged'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and nothing challenges it quite like Donald Trump. It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s unpleasant because it means trying to reconcile our instinctive, even reflexive, pleasures...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Year of Donald Trump in the White House]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/a-year-of-donald-trump-in-the-white-house</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jan 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Adam Gopnik</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Living'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' as we do, on what is'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'as hard as it may be to believe'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'the first anniversary of Trump in power, we find ourselves caught in a quarrel between Trump optimists and Trump pessimists, and one proof of how right the Trump pessimists have been is that the kind of thing that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The False, Evergreen Arguments Against Gun Control]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/a-mass-shooting-in-texas-and-false-arguments-against-gun-control</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 07 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Adam Gopnik</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Hey,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' good morning. The Giants looked terrible, didn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t they? One more Russian connection turned up in the Trump Cabinet'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'Oh, what'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s that? A gun massacre in Texas? Oh, was it a terrorist attack? How many dead? Twenty, they'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re saying! Now it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' more'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' than twenty?...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The JFK Files, Trump and the Deep State]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-jfk-files-trump-and-the-deep-state</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 30 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Adam Gopnik</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' release last Thursday of previously classified, or at least unseen, government files of all kinds relating to the assassination of John F. Kennedy is being heralded as Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s decision'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'though it was simply his decision not to prevent their release, which had long...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Macron's Sane Path Forward for France]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/thinking-of-richard-wilbur-and-moliere-while-listening-to-emmanuel-macron</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 19 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Adam Gopnik</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' death, on Saturday, of the poet Richard Wilbur may make one'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'a Francophile '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'one,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' anyway'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'reflect on the supreme qualities of his English translations of Moli'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¨').';'re. Over the years, Wilbur translated most of the masterpieces of the seventeenth-century French...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[There Can Be No Truce With the Second Amendment]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/after-the-las-vegas-shooting-there-can-be-no-truce-with-the-second-amendment</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Adam Gopnik</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Was it a jihadist or just a guy?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' So the seventeen-year-old girl asks, on hearing the news, landing at once on the central black-comedy question as the annals of American mass murder expand this morning. If the author of the'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' at least fifty dead and more wounded'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'the word...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hugh Hefner, Playboy, and the American Male]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/hugh-hefner-playboy-and-the-american-male</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Adam Gopnik</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' careers of certain cultural figures follow a predictable arc: first young and brazen, then oddly revered, then overly familiar, and then, at last, obsolete. Frank Harris had a career with a shape something like this: a cowboy and a lawyer before becoming the leading London...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Norms and Cliffs in Trump's America]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/norms-and-cliffs-in-trumps-america</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 04 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Adam Gopnik</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Deflecting the discourse into one about norms, when we are really talking about premises and principles, is one more way of normalizing Trump.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Is Emmanuel Macron Being So Nice to Trump?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/why-is-emmanuel-macron-being-so-nice-to-donald-trump</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jul 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Adam Gopnik</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If the French President imagines that his American counterpart will maintain fond memories of dinners shared and parades watched, he is deluding himself.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Was the American Revolution Such a Good Idea?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/05/15/we-could-have-been-canada</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 08 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Adam Gopnik</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Was the American Revolution such a good idea?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Radical Anti-Americanism]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/02/13/trumps-radical-anti-americanism</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Adam Gopnik</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As the President rejects our foundational principles, all we can turn to is our instinct for shared defiance.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Orwell's '1984' and Trump's America]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/orwells-1984-and-trumps-america</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Adam Gopnik</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I have, I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'m afraid, a terrible confession to make: I have never been a huge fan of George Orwell'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'1984.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' It always seemed, in its extrapolations from present to future, too pat, a little lacking in the imaginative extrapolations we want from dystopian literature. As...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Democrats and the Seesaw of Identity Politics]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-democrats-and-the-seesaw-of-identity-politics</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Adam Gopnik</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If by identity politics we mean the idea that politicians should consider identifiable groups'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??well, it is hard to identify a time when that hasn't happened.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Trump Is Different--and Must Be Repelled]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/why-trump-is-different-and-must-be-repelled?intcid=mod-latest</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Adam Gopnik</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For the past months, and into this final week, as for much of the past year, many New Yorkers have been in a position that recalls parents with a colicky baby: you put the baby down at last, it seems safely asleep, grateful and unbelievably exhausted you return to bed'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'only to hear...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Predictable Result of a Widely Armed Citizenry]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-horrific-predictable-result-of-a-widely-armed-citizenry</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jul 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Adam Gopnik</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The killings in Dallas are one more reminder that guns are central, not accessory, to the American plague of violence.]]></description>
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