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Today’s newsletter is an interview with Ross Barkan, a guy that isn’t easy to pin down. When I first came across Barkan, I assumed he was a cultural critic. But that’s actually not how most people knew him. Barkan made a name for himself as a political commenter, his words appearing in basically any magazine you could name. But even that only scratches the surface.
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