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I Love Christmas So Much I'm Glad There Are Two Of Them

The double joy of a particularly Christian, and a distinctly American, holiday

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Addison Del Mastro
Dec 27, 2025
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I have another Christmas piece at The Bulwark, which ran on Christmas Eve. (Here’s my first one, on Amazon’s original Christmas songs, and my follow-up here).

This second one is the more important of the two, and in it I articulate a thought I’ve had for awhile about the whole question of the commercialization and secularization of Christmas. (I kind of …

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