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Postmodernity and hamburgers

Like any good child of the postmodern era, I am a sucker for Americana. Maybe it’s my disgust with the mediocrity of corporatized 21st century America, or maybe I’m just a bored, upper-middle class, white kid without a cultural identity, but either way I love the remnants of the time when things were Made in...

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Aka Sushi: fresh fish in Jackson, Michigan

Evaluating American sushi restaurants is difficult. “Authenticity” is out of the question: I can name the good, authentic Japanese sushi restaurants in this country on two hands, and none of them are in this state or the states bordering it. At the same time, quite a bit of American sushi tastes good. Really good. Enough...

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The Republican Party’s future is liberty

Social conservatism, as we know it, is dead. As a self-labeled conservative, it pains me to say this, but the truth is that the days of using religion to justify public policy are over, and the election last week signified the end. Not only was President Barack Obama, the first president in American history to...