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      <title>The Newspaper Didn&#39;t Die. It Was Sold for Parts.</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The collapse of local journalism is not a market failure. It is the predictable outcome of private equity treating public institutions as inventory.</description>
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      <title>On the Moral Cowardice of Epistemic Humility</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>There is a difference between genuine uncertainty and the performance of uncertainty as a way of avoiding difficult conclusions. Our public discourse has become expert at the latter.</description>
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