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Joel Whitney

Joel Whitney is cofounder of Guernica and a contributor to The New York Times, The New Republic, The Paris Review, and others.

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Literature & Culture, Politics

Imperial Methods

The late Peter Matthiessen’s dive into Buddhism is fascinating, but also Orientalist.

Joel Whitney

Literature & Culture, Science & Nature

Censored by Google

Any literate person could recognize that the essay was a work of art. But Google’s family-friendly algorithm decided it was porn.

Joel Whitney

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