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Matt Taibbi • The American Press Is Destroying Itself - Reporting by Matt Taibbi
Chloe Lombard
@chlombard
Max Bernstein
@maxbernstein
During the 2016 election cycle, I still approached politics through the winsome model, and I realized that it was hardening me toward fellow believers. I was too concerned with how one’s vote might harm the “public witness” of the church, and I looked down upon those who voted differently than me—usually in a rightward direction. “Public witness” m
... See morefirstthings.com • How I Evolved on Tim Keller | James R. Wood
Here Kelly was borrowing a classic leftist technique: the demand for disavowal. If a given politician or a given political stance attracts the “wrong” type of audience, it’s presented as “problematic” on its face. This is the sophisticated version of saying the utterly unsophisticated “If he’s fer it, I’m agin’ it.” In a democracy every person’s vo
... See moreMichael Malice • The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics
His aggressiveness had, after all, turned out to be not the hostility of the radical, idealistic reformer to property and power but something quite the opposite, an expression of his regard for power, an acknowledgment of the fact that he had on his side, in the person of that uneducated, practically illiterate demagogue from the Fulton Fish Market
... See moreRobert A. Caro • The Power Broker
Shoro Roy
@shororoy
His digital footprint was itty-bitty, and it was clear that he had built a life that was more IRL than URL. How fucking sexy.