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When Patriotism Loses Its Universality

Dear Reader (and everyone trying to keep cool),

I'm in Nantucket working on some hot new limericks. More about that later. Later today, I'm hoping to make the arduous trek along the Ted Kennedy Trail into the heart of Martha's Vineyard, in the hope of bringing Alan Dershowitz the much-craved social approval he's been so cruelly denied. I will have to go in mufti, of course. Wearing Nantucket Red shorts — not by coincidence, the same color as MAGA hats — would be a dead giveaway that I'm an outsider. If caught by the locals, there's no telling what they would do to me. They might serve me unchilled Chablis or — <shudder> — serve red wine with fish.

Anyway, on the ...

July 06 2018

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When Patriotism Loses Its Universality

Jonah Goldberg

Dear Reader (and everyone trying to keep cool),

I'm in Nantucket working on some hot new limericks. More about that later. Later today, I'm hoping to make the arduous trek along the Ted Kennedy Trail into the heart of Martha's Vineyard, in the hope of bringing Alan Dershowitz the much-craved social approval he's been so cruelly denied. I will have to go in mufti, of course. Wearing Nantucket Red shorts — not by coincidence, the same color as MAGA hats — would be a dead giveaway that I'm an outsider. If caught by the locals, there's no telling what they would do to me. They might serve me unchilled Chablis or — <shudder> — serve red wine with fish.

Anyway, on the ... Read More

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