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Politics

Shall I Sell Out to You or Sell You Out?

Jesse Walker | 1.24.2010 9:15 PM

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At this point I'm pretty tired of essays by conservatives laying out what annoys them about the contemporary conservative movement. But Michael Brendan Dougherty's smart and funny tirade in The Awl is much better than the typical specimen of the genre.

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Jesse Walker is books editor at Reason and the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.

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