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Think it was this one.

Wouldn't it be pretty if the Anti-Defamation League were sued for defamation?

The fabulous Alina Stefanescu joins us to talk about poetry as a marketing device in Taylor Swift's latest album as well as some of her favorite poets.

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It’s long past time for us all to acknowledge that democracy in the United States is almost exclusively a rhetorical gesture, and an increasingly hollow one at that.

Professor Susan Bernofsky from Columbia university: “I do feel that the students are highly critical of Israeli politics, and I do not believe that is inherently antisemitic at all. And I do not feel threatened as a Jewish faculty member in any way by what’s happening on campus.”

To the pro-Palestine protester arrested at UT Austin, this spin’s for you.

'Scenarios,' a film Jean-Luc Godard made the day before his death, will screen at this year's Cannes: thefilmstage.com/cannes-adds-ne…

If you are rational, when your government does something you don't like, you protest it, as Americans did when Trump was president, and as they are doing now. If you are German, you protest the opposition party your government's inept policies are only making more popular.

Fuck: NYPD, LAPD, DPS, APD, et al

V pleased to be in what looks like a great issue of Granta with this short story granta.com/prairie-dogs/

SMITHER: Sir, the student protests are spreading. It seems that support for Palestine has reached previously unseen levels across all segments of society.
MR. BURNS: Very well, then. Release Harvey Weinstein!

Since we had to sit through months of “‘Hamas-run’ Health Ministry,” journalists should at least refer to this guy as “NYU Stern School of Business Professor of Marketing Scott Galloway.”