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Mitt Romney is uncool. That’s why people respect him.
Sen. Mitt Romney has realized just how lame he is. Although, I doubt he’d trade his life for anything cooler.
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Kathleen Sykes
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May 2023
The Buendía Family Curse
How collective amnesia drives a new iconoclasm.
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Kathleen Sykes
In search of the “Big Takeaway”
Art interpreting Covid-19: Reality, meaning, and the quest for a big takeaway in “these unprecedented times.”
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William Collen
April 2023
My one-year anniversary on Substack
Plus or minus a few days. I started off by talking about suicide. Naturally.
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Kathleen Sykes
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A whirlwind of a Weekly Rondo
I’ve been MIA. But don’t worry — I don’t have a good excuse.
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Kathleen Sykes
7
March 2023
The Dangerous Weekly Rondo
Hello, and welcome back! (I say that mostly for my benefit since I have been terrible at updating my Substack.) In case you haven’t seen it yet,…
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Kathleen Sykes
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Art is not supposed to be pleasant
If we always expect a happy ending, we deprive the humanities of humanity.
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Kathleen Sykes
7
February 2023
Well, hello there!
The Charrette is back with the not-so-Weekly Rondo, book club and a topsy-turvy list of recommendations.
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Kathleen Sykes
3
ICYMI: The Try Guys try stoning an adulterer to death
How to be your brother's keeper without being your brother's creeper.
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Kathleen Sykes
January 2023
My interview with Mark Dykeman
Also: Hello from the abyss!
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Kathleen Sykes
December 2022
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