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Ben Carson’s Past and Present

Calvin Trillin

November 19, 2015

Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson (AP Photo / Mark J. Terrill)

When Carson claims he was a bad-ass youth, His tales and actual facts vary. But even if he didn’t wield a shiv, The man’s ideas alone are scary.

Calvin TrillinCalvin Trillin is The Nation’s “deadline poet.”


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