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Denatured: the writings of Christopher Ketcham

Denatured: the writings of Christopher Ketcham

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Mother Justice

  • cketcham
  • January 10, 2019January 10, 2019

(Vanity Fair, Nov. 2008) When her son was sentenced to 25 years for Brooklyn’s 2003 “grid kid” slaying, Doreen Quinn Giuliano was sure he’d been wrongfully convicted. To prove it, she went

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The Fallacy of Endless Growth

  • cketcham
  • January 10, 2019January 10, 2019

My 2017 piece in Pacific Standard on the madness of unlimited economic growth on a tiny planet: https://psmag.com/magazine/fallacy-of-endless-growth

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Buddhism in the Storm

  • cketcham
  • January 10, 2019

(CounterPunch, March 27, 2017) The storm is coming. Out the door the winds rage. The weather service predicts two feet around my house in the mountains, and I’ve been stockpiling wood all day, an

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New Information from Trump White House Insider

  • cketcham
  • January 10, 2019

(CounterPunch, Sept. 10 2018) Last week a man I’ll call Guido Bartalucci, a former Trump White House insider, asked to meet with me at a bar in Queens to discuss his knowledge of the “Trump tra

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Cooking Show Suicides and other Inanities

  • cketcham
  • January 10, 2019January 10, 2019

(CounterPunch, June 11, 2018) Recent information unearthed by CounterPunch’s crack investigative team has revealed that Anthony Bourdain killed himself in the wake of discovering he suffered from

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The Future is the Car Free National Park!

  • cketcham
  • January 10, 2019January 10, 2019

How Washington’s short-sighted fealty to the automobile has ruined the great outdoors By Christopher Ketcham, for The New Republic April 10, 2018 Lately we’ve heard a lot from the bureaucrats a

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A Trojan Horse in the National Parks

  • cketcham
  • January 9, 2019January 9, 2019

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