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Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium

For those who have difficulty understanding the strange way words are used by politicians and the media, here is a glossary translating political rhetoric into plain English: "crisis": any situation you want to change "bilingual": unable to speak English "equal... See more

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Even in a world where dissimulation was the norm and where imperial households were commonly stained with blood, Seneca had gone too far, and the public was disgusted. People were more outraged, we are told, by Seneca than by the barbarous Nero, at whom there was no longer any point in being shocked: “Seneca wrote a confession in that letter,” they

Emily Wilson • The Greatest Empire: A Life of Seneca

According to a draft of an unpublished Substack post, his newest plan is to promote Urbit as an élite private club whose members, he believes, are destined to become “the stars of the new public sphere—a new Usenet, a new digital Athens built to last forever.”

Ava Kofman • Curtis Yarvin’s Plot Against America

If you are a upper class Democrat in the Northeast corridor bubble trying to figure out why Trump and Elon obliterating tens of thousands of Federal jobs may be causing their popularity to go up, not down, read this. Having lived all over the US, the federal government is largely seen as capricious, wasteful, and cruel.... See more

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Palin kept looking for a second act that never came. She suffered the pathetic fate of being a celebrity ahead of her time. For with her candidacy something new came into our national life that was also traditional. She was a western populist who embodied white identity politics. In her proud ignorance, unrestrained narcissism, and contempt for the

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

I can’t help but have noticed that we’re afraid to speak about our beliefs in polite society. If you don’t know where people around you stand, today you are less likely to talk about who you’re voting for, or about your religious beliefs. Perhaps it’s because it’s no longer acceptable. If you’re with your church friends of course, you can talk