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When, in the 1970s, the Sex Pistols sang “There is no future,” there was at least a confrontational relish to it. Now there’s just dread.
New York Times • The Darkness Where the Future Should Be
Hasson says once hired at Snopes, LaCapria wrote “fact checks” that read more like an opinion column.
Sharyl Attkisson • The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote
Thomas Sowell and John McWhorter took on all these issues with a sense of compassion in their respective books. Sowell’s The Intellectuals and Race is a relentless dissection of how leftists try to reconstruct racial realities to further their agenda. McWhorter’s Losing the Race is a scathing—though empathetic—attack on contemporary black anti-inte
... See moreMichael Malice • The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics
The Bob Rubin trade? Robert Rubin, a former Secretary of the United States Treasury, one of those who sign their names on the banknote you just used to pay for coffee, collected more than $120 million in compensation from Citibank in the decade preceding the banking crash of 2008. When the bank, literally insolvent, was rescued by the taxpayer, he
... See moreNassim Nicholas Taleb • Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
Rothbard brings to the New Right a contempt for the establishment and elites in general, it is from Pat Buchanan that the New Right gets its global perspective. Buchanan’s Death of the West is indeed a seminal text for the New Right
Michael Malice • The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics
It’s the Real Thing! | Leo Kim
thebaffler.com
Open Letter Urging The New York Times to Commission an Independent Review
Professors and scholars of journalism call on The New York Times to commission an independent review of a front-page story raising questions about its reporting and editorial processes.
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