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Mark Dery

Reality is Trolling You: The Farcical Nightmare of Post-Trump America

Reality is Trolling You: The Farcical Nightmare of Post-Trump America

To be an American, picking your way through the debris field of what used to be, at least nominally, a democracy—before Trump and his confederacy of dunces defiled, corrupted, plundered, pimped, sabotaged, and otherwise destabilized it from within—is to live in a nation permanently on edge, a nation
Mark Dery Jul 29, 2022
Nomen est Omen: When Your Name Says the Quiet Part Loud

Nomen est Omen: When Your Name Says the Quiet Part Loud

What do names tell us about people — and what should we have known about Trump? Nominative determinism: the gift that keeps giving. The term, coined by the British science journalist John Hoyland, in a 1994 New Scientist column, refers to the (purely hypothetical) tendency to pursue a calling or, more
Mark Dery Jul 24, 2022
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