I wrote about something that's contested nowadays: empathy.
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Jennifer Szalai·Mar 14
WaPo's Ron Charles, in his Book Club newsletter, on Meta's repeated questions about his plans to review Sarah Wynn-Williams's "Careless People":
"In my 27 years of reviewing and editing newspaper books sections, no company has ever done this with me."
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Jennifer Szalai·Jun 19
In the basement of LAX:
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Jennifer Szalai·Feb 1
Recent book that’s worth reading:
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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Jennifer Szalai·4d
Reading about Platner and the connection between (perceived) "masculinity" and (perceived) "authenticity," and realizing that exactly 10 years ago today I published an essay on why the obsession with choosing the "authentic" politician often leads us astray.
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Jennifer Szalai·5d
Dreher manifesting the Upton Sinclair quote about how difficult it is to get someone to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.
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Jennifer Szalai·Jul 2
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Jennifer Szalai·Jul 1
If the comments are any indication, the campaign to turn the word “entitlement” — a factual assertion of a legal claim — into a pejorative has been remarkably successful.
www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/b...
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Jennifer Szalai·Jun 30
On the long history of liberal debates over virtue and morality, and how mainstream liberals are reclaiming the language of values in the Trump era:
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/29/b...
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Jennifer Szalai·Jun 21
Smart and scathing review of a book that’s supposed to be about the author’s humble faith journey but is inadvertently revealing of his worldly ambition and self-regard.
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Jennifer Szalai·Jun 21
Remembering the Liz Truss Lettuce — the Brits are v good at this
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Jennifer Szalai·Jun 21
New folktale for our time: “The President’s New Pool”
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Jennifer Szalai·Jun 20
Immigrant who criticized a Trump-endorsed presidential candidate in his home country of Colombia was detained after returning to his home in the U.S.:
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/19/u...
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Jennifer Szalai·Jun 19
Observer beaten by ICE, shackled to a hospital bed for days, said he wanted to call his lawyer and his wife, was refused, so he used his foot to knock the landline handset out of the cradle:
