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“Lippmann, who was emerging as America’s most influential liberal journalist, understood information and propaganda to be the fundamental democratic problem under conditions of a mass population and a mass press. The crisis of democracy, he wrote, was in its essence “a crisis in journalism.” The distance between what he called “the world outside
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ONCE WE HAVE a solid definition of racism and antiracism, we can start to make sense of the racialized world around us, before us.
Ibram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist
Defensive identity politics is not the problem, it is, in fact, the only way forward.
Nesrine Malik • We Need New Stories: The Myths that Subvert Freedom
Alvaro M. Bedoya • How I Became a Populist
For the evangelical left, majority rule is not as valid when the majority is white. For months and years leading up to 2016, leftists were ecstatic that we were “finally” going to be a minority-majority country just as our Founding Fathers didn’t intend but surely meant to. When that didn’t happen on schedule, they had a meltdown.
Michael Malice • The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics
Analyzing the autocratic 'adverse selection mechanism,' where leaders use loyalty tests to consolidate power, creating a government of yes-men.
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It doesn't mean you're going to change your mind, change their mind, but it does, you know, allows you to retain this kind of the sense that we, you know, the whole point is to, in politics, is to get people to cooperate for their mutual advantage in spite of their asocial and antisocial tendencies, which usually dominate. And and and that, you
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