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John Warner
From 2003 to 2008 John was editor of McSweeney’s Internet Tendency and is now editor emeritus, a title he made up himself. He’s the author of numerous books including most recently Sustainable. Resilient. Free. The Future of Public Higher Education and The Writer’s Practice: Building Confidence in Your Nonfiction Writing. He writes a weekly column at the Chicago Tribune as his alter ego, The Biblioracle.
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September 20, 2004David Brooks Also Eats Cereal
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April 19, 2004An Open Letter to William Kristol, Richard Perle, and President Bush’s Other Neoconservative Puppetmasters
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July 18, 2003Emotions/Bodily Responses I Experience When Reading About the Controversy Surrounding President Bush’s State of the Union Address in Which He Falsely Stated That Iraq Had Tried to Secure “Yellowcake” Uranium from Niger
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June 16, 2003Breaking Through Writer’s Block
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June 4, 2003Rounder Characters in No Time Flat
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April 22, 2002Injudicious Uses of Exclamation Points in the Teacher’s Video Company Catalog
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November 27, 2000Noises That Select Political Pundits Would Make If They Were Wild Animals Instead of Political Pundits
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November 10, 2000The First 100 Posts
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November 1, 2000Recipes That Would Be Officially Approved by the Ayn Rand Institute
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September 21, 2000The Mopier
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September 19, 2000Lesser-Known Facts, Democratic Party Edition
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January 17, 2000Possible Winning Solutions to the Board Game “Clue” if the Characters were Replaced with Right-Leaning Political Pundits, the Weapons Replaced with Logical Fallacies, and the Rooms Replaced with Either Jung’s “Psychic Containers” or Varieties of Soft Chee
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