Michael Brendan Dougherty
Michael Brendan Dougherty is senior correspondent at TheWeek.com. He is the founder and editor of The Slurve, a newsletter about baseball. His work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, ESPN Magazine, Slate and The American Conservative.
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Get ready to commemorate half a century of man's inhumanity
opinion The centenary of World War I reminds us of what happens when we believe men and society can be perfected. It isn't pretty.
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If Scotland leaves the union, is Northern Ireland next?
opinion The decline of unionism could upset the balance of power in a country that still remains only tentatively at peace
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Why America should fear the worst with Russia
opinion The worst-case scenario is incredibly unlikely. It is also too terrible to be ignored.
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In defense of inherited wealth
opinion Imagine how unequal society would be without it
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Sorry, we will not all be having sex with robots in the future
opinion What robot sex enthusiasts forget is that there's far more to sex than the mechanical act
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America's warped fear of risk canceled The Interview
opinion A desperate lunge against any conceivable disaster scenario is pathological and dangerous
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America is way too big to be a real democracy
opinion But bigness appears to be embedded in our bones
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Don't be a snob about coffee
opinion In the world of elite coffee, self-regard comes piping hot
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Catholics must learn to resist their popes — even Pope Francis
opinion Too many are becoming party apparatchiks
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Soylent food is here — and it is tyrannical
opinion Food substitutes are not a boon for the future, they are the draught of tyranny
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Does America really need a higher purpose?
opinion Some wish the United States would undertake the vast project of democratizing the globe. But it's enough to tend to your own garden.
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In defense of Pope Benedict and the Latin Mass
opinion One of Benedict's greatest legacies was to liberate the Latin Mass — and thereby restore beauty to the whole world
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The Hobby Lobby case should never have happened
opinion ObamaCare has failed to reconcile the tensions in our employer-based health care system. It's time to have a real debate about the issue.
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The religious roots of the elite liberal agenda
opinion Today's liberal crusades are yesterday's Christian anxieties
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Our hacked lives
opinion We need to be mindful of the forces that conspire against our privacy — including ourselves
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What's the best way find about the U.S.'s huge, new, super-secret trade deal? Your local paper.
opinion Scant details have emerged about the Trans Pacific Partnership. But scattered clues have cropped up in small-time rags across the country.
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Westminster is a disaster for dogs — but it can be fixed
opinion Let's start by ditching its early 20th century understanding of "purity"
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On foreign policy, hawks blame America first
opinion Nothing is more ruinous to American power than overestimating our influence
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Democratic Sen. Mark Pryor called desegregation an 'unwilling invasion'
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Incredible Irish dog survives 300-foot cliff dive into the Atlantic
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3 relatives of Pope Francis killed in car crash in Argentina
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Hillary Clinton to end Syria beef with Obama by 'hugging it out' at a fundraiser
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The revised Census just so happens to hide ObamaCare stats
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Pope Francis imposes austerity, Vatican officials complain of socialism
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