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James Pogue

James Pogue is the author of Chosen Country. He has written for Harper’s, The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Granta, The New Republic, and Vice.

The image is split vertically, the left representing the times of the American revolutionary war while the right a more contemporary period. A giant puppeteer with an eerie grin has half of his face in each time period. He watches over protestors demonstrating in front of a bank.

On the Rudeness of Mobs

September 7, 2020
In October of 1769, a conservative Boston printer broadsided a bunch of the day’s leading activists. The colonies were in a furor at the time. Rioters and looters, often backwoods settlers angry about the power of gentlemanly land speculators, had grown in number and motive ...
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They Made a Movie Out of It

January 6, 2020
In early 2018, I was spending a warm West Hollywood Sunday evening on the balcony of a young director of film development, drinking a beer and hoping for an early night[1]. I had planned to sleep on his couch, but when I suggested we turn in, he said, “Nah, just take my bed, ...