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In anticipation of the upcoming Coming to America sequel, we decided to devote a week to some observations,…
Damon Young
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Damon Young is the editor-in-chief of VSB, a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times, and the author of What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker (Ecco/HarperCollins)
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In anticipation of the upcoming Coming to America sequel, we decided to devote a week to some observations,…
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Can you be attracted to your own beard? Not the face it covers. Just the beard. My face is fine, I guess. It’s a…
Feb 19
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When watching any television show or movie depicting police officers, it’s not hard to see why this sort of copaganda
Feb 18
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Has there ever been a man, real or fictional, as pathetic as Ted Cruz? That was not a rhetorical question. I’m…
Feb 17
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So I’d never heard of the Bergdorf Goodman store until Pusha T made a reference to it in “Higher”—which, all things…
Feb 16
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“I just don’t get what you get out of watching this” my wife said to me, several times over the past two months,…
Feb 11
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It’s not completely accurate to say that Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman has recently emerged as a nationally…
Feb 8
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Before I began writing this, I finished eating a makeshift breakfast of two-and-a-half scrambled eggs mixed with…
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I do not remember the first time I went to Red Lobster. Which is fine. I also do not remember the first time I saw…
Jan 21
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It’s been 12 years since I last felt how I felt while I begrudgingly watched some of the inauguration yesterday.…
Jan 19
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In less than 24 hours, Joe Biden will become the president of the United States of America. During his inauguration…
Jan 15
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I bought this at Uncle Bobbies in Philadelphia after a book talk there in 2019. It’s a little snug, but I enjoy…
Jan 12
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It was 2008. I was working at Duquesne University, and one of my colleagues was telling me about Burning Man, which…
Jan 7
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Even as the pandemic has handcuffed so much of our activity, think for a moment of all the shit you still have…
Jan 6
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Meghan McCain’s face, captured here in a thousand-yard death stare while Brady-Brunched with her castmates on The…
Dec 30
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This morning, I began the celebration of my 42nd year on Earth with Esomeprazole (for acid reflux), Lisinopril (for…