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If false consciousness runs at equal pace with cant in these twin fairy tales, it may be because the man Roger Ebert once called the "philosopher of puberty" was mugging for a counterculture in which he never fully believed.

That incredibly interesting sentence comes from a profile of - wait for it - John Hughes. It's almost unfair to nominate this article, since we're pretty sure that the whole thing was written with tongue lodged somewhere in the southern region of the facial area, but phrases like "Hughes was also the first Balzac of homeroom," seal the deal. The only thing missing is a post-colonial theoretic on the symbolism of Long Duk Dong.

Some Kind of Republican [Slate]

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