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Have Mercy!
In “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man,” Henry Louis Gates writes, that many black Americans think that “the soft drink Tropical Fantasy is manufactured by the Ku Klux Klan and contains a special ingredient designed to sterilize black men.” He then demolishes this and other conspiracy theories while recalling America’s troubled racial history,…
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Cool, Refreshing Legislation for Philip Morris
Indulge me in a thought experiment. Pretend that drinking something called “lethalcoffee” has been found to cause cancer. There are five or six kinds of gross-flavored lethalcoffees that hardly anyone drinks, like chocolate, cherry, banana, and vanilla. But there’s one flavor, mint, that 30 percent of all lethalcoffee drinkers are hooked on. And there’s one…
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Lost Decade? We Just Had One
” ‘Jesus,’ he said to himself. ‘Drunk for ten years.’ “—F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Lost Decade” For months, the “lost decade” meme has been wending its way through blog posts, economics journals, cable news shows, and newspaper think pieces until, like a minor leaguer on a hot streak, it finally reached The Show, the White…
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