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It’s High Time to Bury Time Magazine’s ‘Person of the Year’

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The newsweekly’s Person of the Year feature, once a portentous signifier of national and even international import, has been a running joke for decades. Now it’s not even funny.

Thomas Vinciguerra
Thomas Vinciguerra
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Thomas Vinciguerra

Thomas Vinciguerra

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