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Freddie deBoer

is a graduate student. He has written for Culture11, Balloon Juice, Wunderkammer Magazine, Consider, the League of Ordinary Gentlemen, The New Inquiry, and at his political blog, L'Hôte.

Essays & Reviews

Kill Your Martyrs

By Freddie deBoerJanuary 27, 2014
image by imp kerr, adapted from Many of us have a habit of being overly credulous to stories that flatter our biases When I was…
Essays & Reviews

Enjoy the Rules

By Freddie deBoerJuly 24, 2013
A review of Jaron Lanier’s Who Owns the Future?
Essays & Reviews

The Tryhards

By Freddie deBoerAugust 31, 2012
Chris Hayes’s Twilight of the Elites wants it both ways: solving radical problems without radical change.
Essays & Reviews

The Resentment Machine

By Freddie deBoerNovember 7, 2011
(Geoff McFetridge, via) The immiseration of the digital creative class  The popular adoption of the internet has brought with it great changes. One of the peculiar…
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