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Philip Luke Johnson

Philip Luke Johnson is a lecturer at Princeton University. He researches crime and violence in the Americas. He is writing a book about “narco-messaging” and the war on drugs in Mexico. icon

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Growing Up in the World Made by Femicide

By Philip Luke Johnson

A dystopian buddy story shows misogynist violence emerging spontaneously—almost casually—from male camaraderie, from ennui, from dipshit youth.

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