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Antonio Garcia Martinez • Twilight of the Media Elites
Liberals cannot quite bring themselves to support state regulation of the soul. (Indeed, by “family values,” they mean not sexual morality but subsidized child care and a living wage.) So they have come up with their own alternative: not care for the soul but care for the body. Health is their religion, the body their temple.
Charles Krauthammer • Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics
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Joseph Bottum • An Anxious Age: The Post-Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of America
Amid all the attacks, Trump proves as incalculable as Wildcard. A bully one moment, kindhearted the next. Brash and unapologetic. He’s savvy yet reckless, reliable only in terms of his unpredictability. There’s no way to accurately poll his popularity or place odds on his voter appeal. He throws the whole “establishment” into disarray. His strength
... See moreSharyl Attkisson • The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote
In contrast to Shapiro’s How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them: 11 Rules for Winning the Argument, Day is not interested in debate. “The most important thing to accept here,” Day says, “is the complete impossibility of compromise
Michael Malice • The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics
Technology companies drove the survivors into a mindset of engineered efficiency—the belief that data tells you everything of value. “Just like the tech companies, journalism has come to fetishize data. And this data has come to corrupt journalism,” Franklin Foer writes in World Without Mind. “Once journalists come to know what works, which stories
... See moreGeorge Packer • Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal
It’s easy to caricature Jones as a lunatic or a clown. But Jones subtly and consistently preaches several essential New Right ideas. The first is that politics is often a public sideshow, a distraction that grants the illusion of choice when actual decisions are made covertly and secretly without even the pretense of public input. The second is tha
... See moreMichael Malice • The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics
By 2015 it was Donald Trump who had once again melded the combative Rothbardian style to Buchananite ideology. Trump did not simply defeat Jeb Bush; he humiliated him and his family on a personal level. Ditto Ted “Your father shot JFK” Cruz, and Marco “Google ‘gay rumors’” Rubio. Many in the thinking class assume Trump doesn’t know what he’s doing,
... See moreMichael Malice • The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics
