What’s In A Word
June 18, 2026
Alex Pretti, approved religions, Dept of Homeland Security, Dr. Andrew Newberg, facism, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, ICE, Jelani Cobb, John Meacham, Peggy Noonan, Pete Hetseth, Renée Good, Section 702, Spencer Ackerman, Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Brennan Center0 Comment
Author Caroline Miller ruminates on the power of words that act as chameleons, serving both truth or lies, democracy or fascism and which voters must navigate in the November 2026 election.
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February 05, 2026
AI, Alex Pretti, conspicuous consumption, cryuptocurrency, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ihan OmarI, Kasrrie Jacobs, our plastic brains, The Great Gatsby, Theory of the Leisure Class, Thorstein Veblen
The day after Alex Pretti’s death, I sat down with a cup of coffee beside a woman who was finishing her lunch. When I mentioned my shock over the young man’s killing, she said she’d heard the news on NPR and found the incident too upsetting to discuss. A book she was reading
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