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Sebastian Biot
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Karen Attiah, “The Saudification of America is under way” (The Guardian · Opinions, Nov. 18, 2025)

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The Saudification of America is under way | Karen Attiah
Jamal Khashoggi’s plight and murder was a warning sign for the US, of the impending loss of freedom and censorship that would sweep the country
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November 19, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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… any putative ‘challenge’ to the newsroom or the editorial board in the form of a first-person essay is, in effect, permission to continue this malpractice.”

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No Opinion — The New York Times: Boycott, Divest, Unsubscribe
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October 27, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Adam Phillips · On Resistance
Resistance is at once recognition and a fantasy of catastrophe; indeed, in resisting one has always leaped forward to...
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October 24, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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… we are either, in a bad-faith kind of way pretending to relinquish our agency (as though to be without intention is to be without guilt), or we have come up against the limits of our agency.”

Adam Phillips, “On Resistance” (London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk, Aug. 14, 2025)
October 24, 2025 at 4:17 PM