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The right had a Critical Race Theory-like talking point: the academic left is poisoning young minds; there are stable truths.
David Shields • How We Got Here: Melville Plus Nietzsche Divided by the Square Root of (Allan) Bloom Times Žižek (Squared) Equals Bannon
whether it was a Nazi collaborator serving as the paper’s Berlin bureau chief at the most sensitive moment in modern history, a communist propagandist helping to midwife American recognition of the Soviet Union, the creation of a jihadist boy-martyr almost out of thin air, the cover-up of radiation sickness resulting from the use of nuclear weapons
... See moreAshley Rindsberg • The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times's Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History
He is “a third rate Western lawyer,” the Herald gloated. “The conduct of the republican party in this nomination is a remarkable indication of a small intellect, growing smaller.” Rejecting Seward and Chase, “who are statesmen and able men,” the Herald continued, “they take up a fourth rate lecturer, who cannot speak good grammar,” and whose speech
... See moreDoris Kearns Goodwin • Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Jarrod Dicker • Don’t Blame Media’s Business Model
the internet not only had democratized information beyond people’s wildest imaginings but also was replacing genuine knowledge with “the wisdom of the crowd,”
Michiko Kakutani • The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump
Dean Kissick • The Painted Protest, by Dean Kissick
This love of Pinochet is very much in the trolling Rothbardian tradition (either that or it’s crypto-fascists tacitly showing their hand).