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Opinion: Alex Pretti didn’t have to die

January 26, 2026 Marcus Peter 191

By now, the death of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis has been converted into a digital spectacle, parsed, dissected, meme-ified, and moralized across social media platforms. One side is casting Pretti as a canonized martyr against […]

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Fact-checking the New Yorker

January 21, 2026 George Weigel 15

Back in the day, when the New Yorker set the standard for literary elegance among serious American journals, writers were driven to distraction by the fanatical fact-checking characteristic of the magazine’s gimlet-eyed editors. But the old New Yorker ain’t […]