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In another timeline, Yarvin might have remained an obscure and ineffectual internet crank, a digital de Maistre. Instead, he has become one of America’s most influential illiberal thinkers, an engineer of the intellectual source code for the second Trump Administration. “Yarvin has pushed the Overton window,” Nikhil Pal Singh, a history professor... See more

Ava Kofman • Curtis Yarvin’s Plot Against America

For years, the New Right has had little political representation and been treated as beneath notice by the mainstream press. This is no longer an option, especially in a social media world. Its members are smart, they are organized, and, most importantly, they do have a very coherent worldview. Illiterately tweeting “YOUR RACIST” over and over at

Michael Malice • The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics

In 1999 Thomas Friedman published The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization. It was Das Kapital for Smart America. In Friedman’s account, globalization is the organizing system of the post–Cold War era, but, unlike the Cold War, it is the result of technological advances and blind economic forces, not government policies. Rejecting

George Packer • Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal

The problem is that the journalist Thomas Friedman is still driving the bus. There is no penalty for opinion makers who harm society. And this is a very bad practice.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb • Incerto 4-Book Bundle

To worship at the altar of mega-scale and to convince yourself that you should be the one making world-historic decisions on behalf of a global citizenry that did not elect you and may not share your values or lack thereof, you have to dispense with numerous inconveniences—humility and nuance among them. Many titans of Silicon Valley have made

La construction d’un champ politique clivé non pas entre des progressistes (ou des « libéraux », au sens américain du terme) plus ou moins radicaux, et des conservateurs plus ou moins décidés, entre l’électorat du parti démocrate et celui du parti républicain (ou, en termes européens, entre la gauche et la droite), mais entre un centre modéré et

Antoine Chollet • L'antipopulisme ou la nouvelle haine de la démocratie (French Edition)

Preferably, I thought, Israel should have unilaterally applied the Bush-Sharon letter, building only within those areas we could keep in any peace deal—Jewish Jerusalem and the settlement blocs—and signaling our seriousness about creating a viable West Bank Palestinian state.

Michael B. Oren • Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide

exclusionary and illiberal beliefs. One rarely hears of South Asian students barred from their campus environmental or LGBTQ group because they sympathize with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s virulently anti-Muslim brand of Hindu nationalism. Treating Zionist students as pariahs is both unfair and counterproductive. The best way to convince Jewish

Peter Beinart • Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning

We are the same people that we were even a couple of thousand years ago. This undermines a central tenet of progressivism, that now we’re all smart but before everyone used to be dumb (how convenient for us!). Some on the New Right would posit that we were smart then and that we’ve being going down the wrong road for quite a long time. Then there’s