Swift was born into the Anglo-Irish Protestant elite, and the text satires both the callousness of his class and a then-ascendant approach to morality and politics that held that all aspects of life could be cooked down to a pure numerical value.
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Dónal Gill,
The Dial,
8 Sep. 2026
Did celebrated Italian auteur Nanni Moretti, known at home and abroad for his leftist political satires and introspective human comedies, just make his first straight-up soap opera?
In a round robin of insults, Proto blasted the incumbent Democratic senator who first won election in 2022.
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Christopher Keating,
Hartford Courant,
14 Oct. 2026
But even with such attitudinal strides, Pew Research shows that people’s fears about AI’s societal impact are high, and digital choirs hurl insults at any project featuring the tech.
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