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

David Brooks | How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

Gamergate was the probably the first time the evangelical left came up against an enemy who was completely focused on tactics and completely uninterested in how or why they were saying what they were saying. The goal was to clear the playing field of the enemy, and to do that one needed to understand the programming. In fact, gamers have no choice

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

Why Leftists Can't Enjoy Anything

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We see it nowadays with demands to strip internet anonymity in an attempt to force people to suffer severe consequences for what they say online.

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

Arnold Kling, an economist, published a book a decade ago that offered a way to think about the core difference between progressives and conservatives. Progressives, Kling wrote, see the world as a struggle between the oppressor and the oppressed, and they try to help the oppressed. Conservatives see the world as a struggle between civilization and... See more

...The dart guns of social media give more power and voice to the political extremes while reducing the power and voice of the moderate majority. The “Hidden Tribes” study, by the pro-democracy group More in Common, surveyed 8,000 Americans in 2017 and 2018 and identified seven groups that shared beliefs and behaviors. The one furthest to the right... See more

The Atlantic • Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid

The idea that minorities are less important in any sense, even when it comes to the mathematics needed to win an election, strikes at the very basis of the evangelical left and their creation myth.

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

“When you’re trying to be original, you sound like everyone else trying to be original.” - Dan Klein