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Good Reading, Good Thinking, Good Writing
“To criticize properly is to show the process of judgment...to struggle with what we like.”
 • Josie Barboriak
Naked Journalism
Postscript No. 10 | Sarah Miller and Charlotte Hampton on covering campus politics and editing student newspapers
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Chasing the Story
“I noted when the organizers said, ‘This is our Vietnam.’ It embodied the story.”
 • Sarah Miller
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Unveiling our grand plan
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THE MANIFESTO IS DEAD! THE MANIFESTO IS DEAD!
“Writing a manifesto means self-actualization to the highest degree. It necessitates a deft attention to the world that is akin to prayer.”
 • Cathy Li
The Manifesto with No Name
Postscript No. 9 | Ramsey Alsheikh on the eros of activism
 • Ramsey Alsheikh and The New Critic
Freak Show
“Algorithms reward attention, and if you can’t get the good kind, then the bad will do.”
 • Theodore Gary
Holy Fool
Postscript No. 8 | Theodore Gary on Joshua Block, Dostoevsky, middle school boys, and authenticity
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