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Joel Whitney

Joel Whitney is the author of Finks: How the CIA Tricked the World’s Best Writers (2017) and the forthcoming Flights: Progressives on the Run (2024).

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Fifty years ago, the American Indian Movement occupied the site of a historic massacre. They won real gains in the face of brutal counterinsurgency tactics.

Joel Whitney

Peter Matthiessen's Orientalism.

Joel Whitney

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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