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<title><![CDATA[Freddie deBoer - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/44313.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Freddie deBoer]]></description><category domain="44313">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[My Dog Died During Lockdown]]></title>
							<link>https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/my-dog-died-during-lockdown</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Freddie deBoer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I'm tempted to say that Brooklyn was an odd place to ride out Covid, but I guess it was an odd experience everywhere.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Machine God's Existence Would Insist Upon Itself]]></title>
							<link>https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/the-machine-gods-existence-would</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Freddie deBoer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[if AI forever changes human life, you won't have to persuade anyone it's happened]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Kanye West &amp; the 'Mental Illness Doesn't Do That' Crowd]]></title>
							<link>https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/its-mental-illness-doesnt-do-that</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Freddie deBoer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[wovon man nicht sprechen kann, dar'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¼').';'ber muss man schweigen]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Brat Summer Was a Lie: The New Era of Astroturf Fandom]]></title>
							<link>https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/welcome-to-the-era-of-astroturf-fandom</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Freddie deBoer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[from brat summer to Barbiecore, it's an age of engineered crazes]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems Can't Ignore Public Sentiment on Immigration]]></title>
							<link>https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/we-have-to-take-some-kind-of-an-l?utm_source=post-email-title&amp;publication_id=295937&amp;post_id=156601779&amp;utm_campaign=email-post-title&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNjM3ODcxOCwicG9zdF9pZCI6MTU2NjAxNzc5LCJpYXQ</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 07 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Freddie deBoer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I am an internationalist, which is to say that I don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t respect the concept of country. As shorthand I sometimes refer to myself as an open borders guy, but this isn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t quite right, as I am in fact a no-borders guy, in common with people from my political tradition. The...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Deference Politics]]></title>
							<link>https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/the-basics-deference-politics</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 Sep 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Freddie deBoer</author>
							<description><![CDATA["sorry about mass incarceration, let me act weird and anxious around you to make up for it"]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems Engaging in Some Very Premature Football-Spiking]]></title>
							<link>https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/kamala-harris-isnt-winning-this-race</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 25 Aug 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Freddie deBoer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[this is some very premature football-spiking]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[You Call That Compassion?]]></title>
							<link>https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/you-call-that-compassion</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 05 Aug 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Freddie deBoer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I live close to Yale University and sometimes I take my morning walks around there. The campus is beautiful and walkable, and I badly miss academia; as uncool as it sounds, I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'m afraid I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'m a sucker for the pageantry and sense of self-importance. There'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s also a lot of great...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats Think Harris Is Running for President of Online]]></title>
							<link>https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/democrats-think-their-candidate-is</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 01 Aug 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Freddie deBoer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It will always be 2016]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Political Candidates Should Be Chosen Democratically]]></title>
							<link>https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/i-do-not-need-to-defend-myself-for</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Freddie deBoer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[primaries are the immune systems of political parties]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Every Meaningless Cultural Issue Is Not a Racial Proxy War]]></title>
							<link>https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/treating-every-meaningless-cultural</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Freddie deBoer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I'm leaving comments off on today's post because I'm traveling to MIT for a speaking event tonight (and trying to avoid crippling eclipse traffic) and won't be able to monitor comments on this post, which is about a contentious topic. Yesterday, the South Carolina Gamecocks women's...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thefp.com/p/how-elites-ate-the-social-justice</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Freddie deBoer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Progressives can still succeed if they call out nonsense, focus on class, and start to talk like human beings again, argues Freddie deBoer in an excerpt from his new book.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ocasio-Cortez Is Just a Regular Old Democrat Now]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/aoc-is-just-a-regular-old-democrat-now/ar-AA1ekmZi?cvid=a8c72c1286be457d8af1b80ba89b6614&amp;ei=26</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Freddie deBoer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s recent appearance on the Pod Save America podcast had, for me, the feeling of a final disappointment, the kind that'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s a little sad but brings a set of quixotic hopes to a close. AOC appeared on the popular Crooked Media show to announce her...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[You Are You. We Live Here. This Is Now]]></title>
							<link>https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/you-are-you-we-live-here-this-is</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 30 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Freddie deBoer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As I get older, explicitly political questions interest me less and less, and I'm motivated more and more to write about human conditions that are, in a sense, pre-political. I feel that intensely when it comes to the various conversations that we're having about the role of digital...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Education Commentary Dominated by Optimism Bias]]></title>
							<link>https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/education-commentary-is-dominated?utm_source=post-email-title&amp;publication_id=295937&amp;post_id=109069141&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;utm_medium=email</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 21 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Freddie deBoer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What follows is a piece that I was commissioned to write for an education publication called The Grade. On submission they declared that the piece was, quote, too hot for publication. As I said to them, that response demonstrates the piece's thesis perfectly.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Of Course You Know What 'Woke' Means]]></title>
							<link>https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/of-course-you-know-what-woke-means</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 17 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Freddie deBoer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As I have said many times, I don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t like using the term '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'woke'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' myself, not without qualification or quotation marks. It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s too much of a culture war pinball and now deemed too pejorative to be useful. I much, much prefer the term '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'social justice politics'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why So Many Elites Feel Like Losers]]></title>
							<link>https://www.persuasion.community/p/why-so-many-elites-feel-like-losers?utm_source=post-email-title&amp;publication_id=61579&amp;post_id=106766109&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;utm_medium=email</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 08 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Freddie deBoer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's destabilizing to have a nation of young strivers with no coherent vision or path to success.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Resilience, Another Thing We Can't Talk About]]></title>
							<link>https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/resilience-another-thing-we-cant?utm_source=post-email-title&amp;publication_id=295937&amp;post_id=94120233&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;utm_medium=email</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Freddie deBoer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Recently Johnathan Haidt was interviewed in the Wall Street Journal about his sense that Generation Z is in crisis. Specifically, he argued that social media has obvious deleterious effects for everyone, but especially for developing minds, and pointed to a concerning rise in depression...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Don't Blame SATs for American Inequality]]></title>
							<link>https://unherd.com/2022/12/dont-blame-sats-for-american-inequality/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Freddie deBoer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The SAT has been, for decades, a rite of passage for American high school students. The test, which pupils typically take a few times in their final two years of school, assesses their reasoning skills in maths and language, assigning a score between 200 and 800 in each area.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Twitter Files and Writing for the Maw]]></title>
							<link>https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/the-twitter-files-and-writing-for?utm_source=post-email-title&amp;publication_id=295937&amp;post_id=89989051&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;utm_medium=email</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Freddie deBoer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I don't give a shit about the Twitter files. I am, famously, not a fan of Twitter, as I see it as the virtual space in which conformity is rigidly enforced. I was guilty, notoriously, of very bad behavior on Twitter, which led to a public shunning of me that was predictable,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Movie for the Post #MeToo Moment]]></title>
							<link>https://www.commonsense.news/p/a-movie-for-the-post-metoo-moment</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.commonsense.news/p/a-movie-for-the-post-metoo-moment]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Freddie deBoer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[T'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¡').';'r is unsettling, pretentious, and too long. Go see it immediately.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Agony of the Radical Democrat]]></title>
							<link>https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/the-agony-of-the-radical-democrat?utm_source=post-email-title&amp;publication_id=295937&amp;post_id=83987210&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;utm_medium=email</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Freddie deBoer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Consider a certain kind of progressive who would prefer to think of himself as left-of-liberal. He'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s a policy guy of some type. Like a lot of people these days, he fancies himself a critic of establishment liberals. Liberals are useless squishes! We need bold, radical action these...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[SJW's Can't Declare Politics Off-Limits]]></title>
							<link>https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/social-justice-advocates-dont-get?s=r</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Freddie deBoer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Sam Adler-Bell published a critique of (let's all groan inside, for different reasons) wokeness. I think it's an interesting and at times trenchant critique. But because it's about wokeness, there's been another big controversy over the term woke and whether white people are ever allowed...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Just Keep It Off My Timeline!]]></title>
							<link>https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/just-keep-it-off-my-timeline?s=r</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Freddie deBoer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Nowadays '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'left'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' opposition to free speech in principle is more or less explicit, though not coherent. As I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve documented before, a core dynamic in left-of-center American politics is the transition from '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'lol that'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s not happening'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' to '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'lol of course...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[We Are Experiencing Definitional Collapse]]></title>
							<link>https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/we-are-experiencing-definitional?utm_source=url</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Freddie deBoer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[To return to a theme. For me, the moment that seemed to pierce reality, Don Delillo in real life, was when anarchists protested in favor of mask mandates. Children in black hoodies who wave the anarchist flag fight for the government and its right to override individual choice. They do...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Covid as Liberal 9/11]]></title>
							<link>https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/covid-as-liberal-911?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo5Mjk3MDA3LCJwb3N0X2lkIjo0Nzg4NjgwMSwiXyI6IjFhczdHIiwiaWF0IjoxNjQzNjM4NjAzLCJleHAiOjE2NDM2NDIyMDMsImlzcyI6InB1Yi0yOTU5MzciLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.iwOL4zgcUwg-zRNyfN</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Freddie deBoer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Omicron wave has caused mass infections of Covid-19, but appear more likely to produce asymptomatic infections or mild illness than the virus always has. (Even prior to the arrival of the vaccines the vast majority of infections were'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' asymptomatic'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' or'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' mild.) Meanwhile the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Princeton Make Its Application Process Even More Opaque]]></title>
							<link>https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/why-are-we-pouring-money-into-a-black?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNjM3ODcxOCwicG9zdF9pZCI6NDYwNzA3ODUsIl8iOiJseHV6LyIsImlhdCI6MTY0MDU1MDEyOSwiZXhwIjoxNjQwNTUzNzI5LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMjk1OTM3Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 26 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Freddie deBoer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Forgive me for making the same basic point I made in somewhat more profane terms recently, but via a reader I learn that Princeton intends to make its application process even more opaque - and, of course, in the name of fairness and diversity, and certainly not for their own cynical...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Covid Panic Is a Site of Inter-Elite Competition]]></title>
							<link>https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/covid-panic-is-a-site-of-inter-elite?fbclid=IwAR29-XU6ByrspzpKdS_nAi4-gOxUjK8DJuEbEHXZsLnYg5MMxX-eJu8Urdw</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Freddie deBoer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[To be the most consumed with fear of Covid is just another PMC laurel'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Where to Now, Chris Hayes? Where to Now?]]></title>
							<link>https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/when-will-chris-hayes-learn-the-lessons</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Freddie deBoer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When I think of a certain kind of liberal Democrat, I think of the aftermath of the 2012 election between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Cancellation and Democrats' Bizarre Messaging Debates]]></title>
							<link>https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/that-one-side-would-like-to-utterly</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Freddie deBoer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Democratic messaging debates are bizarre because one group has been empowered to terrorize those they disagree with]]></description>
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