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Journalist's Bookshelf: 'On Bullshit'

A short but precise philosophical tract.

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Ryan Teague Beckwith
May 30, 2025
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Ernest Hemingway once said that the most essential gift for a writer is “a built-in, shock-proof shit detector.”

For journalists (as Hemingway was before becoming a novelist)…

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