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Postscript No. 16 | Clare Ashcraft on gen z doomerism and romantic delusion
May 22
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Clare Ashcraft
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The New Critic
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Collegiate Value
“But I knew I would come to regret the nearly $200,000 in student loans I’d have to take out because I wanted to go somewhere beautiful.”
May 22
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Clare Ashcraft
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The Girls Who Watch Girls
“I remember us talking on treadmills positioned next to each other…getting ready to go out by rubbing the coconut oil she read porn stars used on our…
May 19
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Sarah Miller
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Bridge over Troubled Water
Postscript No. 15 | Owen Yingling on AI at UChicago, the art of the polemic, and everything of any significance
May 15
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The New Critic
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Owen Yingling
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Is Gen Z afraid of risk, or just more aware?
The editors of The New Critic report on their generation’s Risk-geist.
Published on Asterisk Magazine
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May 13
“What Was College For?”
Introducing a $1,000 New Critic contest
May 13
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The New Critic
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The Great Zombification
“And so perfect parallel constructions fill the lecture halls, the take-home tests, the school newspapers, and perhaps even the idiom of student…
May 11
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Owen Yingling
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April 2026
Pathological Nostalgia
Postscript No. 14 | Aitan Avgar and Milo Tasman on socialist Zionist summer camp
Apr 30
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Elan Kluger
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Notes on Camp
“To leave that idyll was to open a wound incapable of being healed.”
Apr 25
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Elan Kluger
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PEE: $1
“Many people at The Mirror have dyed hair, and even more have piercings in their tongues, eyebrows, and noses.”
Apr 20
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Ryan Merrifield
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Curtis Yarvin Jr.
Postscript No. 13 | Steven Miller on living in Mencius Moldbug’s basement
Apr 15
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Elan Kluger
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Steven Miller
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Werner K. Zagrebbi
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Commute Cursed by God
“Most American drivers experience three to four car accidents in a lifetime. That leaves me with two lifetime supplies...in two years.”
Apr 13
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James Milstead
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