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Why Hugh Hefner’s Haters Won’t Let Him Rest In Peace
Speaking Ill
Ross Douthat’s powerful takedown of Hugh Hefner in The New York Times is part of a new trend of speaking ill of the dead, when their bodies are scarcely cold.
Lizzie Crocker
Published
Oct. 2 2017
9:00PM EDT
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