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Alex Beam

Alex Beam

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‘The problem of goodness’

The good life has been a problem since time immemorial. In the mythological Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve experienced perfect bliss, and it was a drag.

11.04.2024 30

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The Ukraine-Russia war needs to end now, at the conference table

It’s painful to admit that the war in Ukraine has turned out as Putin might have expected.

28.03.2024 1

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How am I doing? AI says: Fair to middling, you ignorant sloth.

The brave new world of AI-powered job reviews sounds like the daily diary of the American nightmare to me.

16.03.2024 40

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For Lent (or any other time), I’m giving up on giving up

It’s time to strike a blow against Americans’ obsession with self-denial.

02.03.2024 10

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Can rowing save your soul?

Why is everyone rowing? Because it’s great, that’s why.

15.02.2024 80

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It’s the end of the world as we know it; do you feel fine?

If it’s the apocalypse, "let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die."

01.02.2024 4

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‘We are all plagiarists now’: What I learned from checking my own writing, and Bill Belichick’s

The program told me to “replace the word gizmo” in the column about gizmos. It also told me to “correct your spelling” of the word...

15.01.2024 10

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Is Taylor Swift dating the wrong NFL superstar?

Forget Travis Kelce. Tom Brady, a.k.a. the Greatest of All Time, is ready, rested, and available.

05.01.2024 9

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Vibe check on 2023

Vibes now dominate the whispering of the spheres, whether it be the will-o’-the-wisp 'vibecession,' the ongoing obsession with 'vibe...

22.12.2023 10

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Politicians look to God and the Bible to do their heavy lifting

Is God listening? Hard to say.

07.12.2023 6

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‘Napoleon’ isn’t accurate? Excuse me, mate, were you there?

Though, yes, there is a howler or two.

27.11.2023 9

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Former bank heist fugitive Katherine Ann Power wants to tell her story

The book’s most dramatic pages describe her parole hearing in 1998, when officer Walter Schroeder’s daughter questioned whether Power was truly...

09.11.2023 20

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Who is to blame for the state of the nation? Mitt Romney.

You can never prove a counterfactual argument, so how do I know that a four-year-long, conservative centrist Mitt Romney presidency would have...

27.10.2023 7

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — full of nonsense but good for the presidential race

Cool it, Kennedy kiddos: Let Bobby run.

16.10.2023 4

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