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Every time I read one of Mandy Brown’s newsletters, I am struck by the clarity of analysis, the persuasiveness of argument, and the wry humor that arrives without noisy preamble but hits like a truck.

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Mandy Brown is essential reading. Such a precise and generous thinker.

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