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Indeed, in many ways, West’s performatively anti-white, unpatriotic, and cosmopolitan version of polyamory is the blue-state mirror image of tradwifery, which, in its various forms, can fetishize whiteness, nostalgic Americana, and (often Christian) nationalism.—
Tyler Austin Harper,
The Atlantic,
18 Mar. 2026 -
But new research suggests that our forbears had more varied and cosmopolitan tastes, centuries before the Guide Michelin.—
Scott Simon,
NPR,
14 Mar. 2026
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The original sculpture of Columbus was dumped into the harbor in 2020 amid civil unrest after the deaths of George Floyd and other Black people by police violence that year.—
Chevall Pryce,
Baltimore Sun,
22 Mar. 2026
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Meanwhile, the distributor and its finance company are still trying to resolve their finances through a civil lawsuit filed the year the deal went south.—
Logan Smith,
CBS News,
22 Mar. 2026
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“Hypercivilized.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hypercivilized. Accessed 28 Mar. 2026.
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