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		<title>Why This White Man Loves Powerful Women</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 11:06:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Last week I wrote about why conservative men fear powerful women. The piece struck a nerve. Thousands of you read it. A few of you wrote to tell me I had lost my soul. You may be right. Today, the other side of the coin. The confession underneath the indictment. I love powerful women. I...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Why Conservative Men Fear Women</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:39:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The news reached my Barcelona terrace on Wednesday, the way bad news always finds you when the coffee is good, and the humidity is low, and you have, for one blissful morning, forgotten the country you came from. The Southern Baptist Convention met in Orlando this past week. More than ten thousand (led and dominated...]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Statues of Montjuïc Cemetery</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:51:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Religious, Supernatural, Utilitarian, Political, and Erotic The woman at the cemetery office handed me two maps. I had been carrying both in my pocket for six hours when I sat down exhausted on a staircase among the columns of names at the Fossar de la Pedrera and let the second map fall out of my...]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Day at Mysterious Montjuïc Cemetery in Barcelona</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 12:14:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I Walked Eight Miles to Leave a Note for a Dead Novelist The funeral procession came around a curve on Sant Oleguer before I saw it. A black Mercedes hearse, then two more black Mercedes with their lights on, then four or five other cars trailing in a slow line up the cemetery road. My...]]></description>
		
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		<title>AI Gets Physical. Would You Have Sex With a Beautiful Humanoid?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 13:19:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Barclays put out a report this month with a title that reads like a tabloid headline:&#160;AI Gets Physical. Their analyst went on the morning finance segment and called this “the decade of the robot.” The numbers behind her enthusiasm are staggering — a two-billion-dollar market today, two hundred billion by 2035, trillions if you believe...]]></description>
		
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		<title>My Vision of Utopia</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 12:40:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I spent most of my life imagining utopia as someplace else. A Galt’s Gulch. A Shangri-La. Fifty-five wilderness acres in the Appalachians I named Kalien, where wounded creatives and I could finally exhale. A cottage on one of the most beautiful beaches in the world.  But my endless search surprised me. The place was never out...]]></description>
		
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