Tag: Kvetch with Jon Liedtke
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The Ghost State and the Death of Shared Reality
Welcome to the splintered multiverse. It’s a place where the scoreboard is a lie, the players are ghosts, and the spectators are so high on the dopamine of domestic spite that they haven’t noticed the 45,000 corpses piling up of innocent protesters in Iran. If you’ve been following the headlines lately, you’re being fed a…
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The Geopolitical Fan-Fiction Distracting Canada
Canada isn’t joining the European Union. We aren’t becoming the 51st American state. And no, despite the recurring fever dreams of winter-weary pundits, we aren’t acquiring the Turks and Caicos. I can’t believe we’re doing this again. It doesn’t matter how many breathless op-eds are written or how many “what if” polls are commissioned by…