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  "textContent": "The dining room table is the civic and moral hearth of our house on Constitution Street. Upon it rest a stack of utility and other bills to be sorted and paid (with cursing as necessary), issues of various magazines including “The New Yorker” and “Fortean Times,” a dog-eared paperback of a Tom Wolfe anthology, and […]",
  "title": "When judges have to cite Orwell in their rulings, our descent into dystopia is self-evident"
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