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<title><![CDATA[Walter Kirn - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/24718.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Walter Kirn]]></description><category domain="24718">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Discussion: 'Bartleby, the Scrivener']]></title>
							<link>https://www.racket.news/p/transcript-discussion-bartleby-the</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 01 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Walter Kirn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Apologies for the disruption of the usual pattern, but as before, we'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re publishing the short story discussion from'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' America This Week'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' separately. On'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Bartleby The Scrivener'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' by Herman Melville:'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Discussion of 'Harrison Bergeron,' by Kurt Vonnegut]]></title>
							<link>https://www.racket.news/p/transcript-discussion-of-harrison</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jun 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Walter Kirn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Walter Kirn and Matt Taibbi on the 1961 story and its relationship to the Kennedy Assassination, Trump, and digital censorship]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Chinese Spy Balloon Over My House]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thefp.com/p/the-chinese-spy-balloon-over-my-house</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Walter Kirn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Walter Kirn on the floating intruder Montanans weren't supposed to notice.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[O Holy Crap]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thefp.com/p/an-elegy-to-all-my-crap</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Walter Kirn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[My local Montana landfill is full of the remains of short-lived coffee grinders, pens, peelers, laptops. After Christmas, I'll need to reserve a bigger plot.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Free Bird: On Musk, Twitter and Social Media Manipulation]]></title>
							<link>https://www.commonsense.news/p/free-bird-on-elon-musk-and-twitter</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Walter Kirn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In more than a decade on Twitter, Walter Kirn watched as the platform manipulated reality in real-time. Now? 'Let the wild rumpus begin.']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[There Is No Such Thing as A.I. Art]]></title>
							<link>https://www.commonsense.news/p/there-is-no-such-thing-as-ai-art</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Walter Kirn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[DALL-E compiles, sifts, and analyzes. But it doesn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t dare. It doesn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t take risks. Only humans, our vulnerable species, can. Walter Kirn writes.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Holy Anarchy of Fun]]></title>
							<link>https://www.commonsense.news/p/the-holy-anarchy-of-fun</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Walter Kirn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In our era of high vigilance, emergency measures and vast decrees, Walter Kirn makes the case for fun.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[If You're Not Paranoid, You're Crazy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/11/if-youre-not-paranoid-youre-crazy/407833/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Walter Kirn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I knew we'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'d bought walnuts at the store that week, and I wanted to add some to my oatmeal. I called to my wife and asked her where she'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'d put them. She was washing her face in the bathroom, running the faucet, and must not have heard me'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'she didn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t answer. I found the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[I Wish the Obamas Would Stop Inviting Me to Dinner]]></title>
							<link>http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/magazine/104235/suckerball-obama-celebrity-fundraising-lottery</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Walter Kirn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[LOTTERIES, BY DEFINITION, are for losers. You enter them with an evanescent sense of grandiosity and optimism, but beneath this delusion lurks the knowledge that you wouldn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t be buying a ticket at all if you believed you had a fighting chance of obtaining the prize by normal means....]]></description>
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