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Laurence Claussen
Oct 25, 20214 min read
Is there such a thing as too much New York Times?
The other day I was listening to my usual U.S politics podcast. Specifically, I was listening to an interesting episode about the decline...
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Laurence Claussen
Jul 23, 20214 min read
Charles Dickens' Great Expectations: A Review
I started Great Expectations around the time I began working on my graduate thesis and after I had read Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, and...
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Laurence Claussen
Jun 30, 20216 min read
Bram Stoker's Dracula: A Review
For a long time, I resisted reading this book. It was unappealing, somehow, and despite recommendations I did not want to give it a...
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Laurence Claussen
Jun 12, 20214 min read
Political Narrative and Personal Decency: How to Confront our Confederate Past
Adapted from a paper I wrote during Grad School. In May 2017, the then mayor of New Orleans, Mitch Landrieu, gave a speech that made him...
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Laurence Claussen
May 22, 20213 min read
Reading Five 19th Century Classics
Over the past two years, at intervals of several months, I have read Frankenstein, Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, Great Expectations, and...
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