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But that is the situation. A power-mad president possessed of radical theories of executive authority and convinced of his own royal prerogative has given de facto control of most of the federal government to one of the richest men on the planet, if not the richest, whose own interests are tangled up in those of rival governments and foreign autocr... See more
Opinion | There Is No Going Back
Fourth, this artificially expanded opportunity will favor general bigness and concentration in finance itself.
Sacha Meyers • Bitcoin Is Venice: Essays on the Past and Future of Capitalism
Tech people are not interested in appeals to virtue or beauty or tradition, like most conservatives,” the State Department official said. “They are more like right-wing progressives, and for a long time Moldbug was the only person speaking to them this way.”
Ava Kofman • Curtis Yarvin’s Plot Against America
Today’s great-power competition is unfolding in the digital era, with the focus shifting to innovation in digital technology rather than ideological competition. The U.S. government has increasingly recognised that ideological intervention yields little practical value and does not substantively enhance its technological competitiveness. This under... See more
Fwd: Yan Xuetong on China–U.S. talks, Ukraine, and international order without global leadership
The Left and the Right think of themselves as opposed to each other, but nuances aside, they follow the idea that the purpose of U.S. power is to project American principles.
George Friedman • The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond
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
to create more informed, smarter-thinking societies, public messaging needs to disentangle evidence from identity.