Opinion
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A Close Examination of the Most Infamous Public Toilet in America
On a recent sunny Sunday, residents of San Francisco’s Noe Valley gathered to celebrate the opening of a toilet. But…
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Art Isn’t Supposed to Make You Comfortable
When I was in college, I came across “The Sea and Poison,” a 1950s novel by Shusaku Endo. It tells…
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Colleges Have Gone Off the Deep End. There Is a Way Out.
I had my head in a law book when I heard the drums. That was the sound of the first…
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A Small Group in South Korea Has a Big Homophobic Agenda
Since South Korean voters delivered a full-throated rebuke of their conservative president this month, a small but influential group has…
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Justice Alito Is Holding Trump to a Different Standard
I mentioned it in passing in my Friday column, but I was struck — disturbed, really — by one specific…
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Left and Right on the Happiness Scale
Readers largely take issue with a column by Ross Douthat about the left’s supposed unhappiness.
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Harvey Weinstein and the Limits of ‘She Said, She Said, She Said’
I often wake up these days feeling as though I’m living in an upside-down world. Thursday was one such morning:…
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What Students Read Before They Protest
When I was a college undergraduate 25 years ago, the fancy school that I attended offered what it styled as…
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I’m a Young Conservative, and I Want My Party to Lead the Fight Against Climate Change
Conservatives were once America’s environmental champions. Not that long ago, Republican presidents were carrying out the Clean Air and Water…
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The Student-Led Protests Aren’t Perfect. That Doesn’t Mean They’re Not Right.
On Wednesday morning, on a corner across the street from Columbia University, a man dressed in black, a huge gold…