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Category Archives: Conservatives
Bill Buckley’s Limitations As A Writer Reflected Bill Buckley’s Limitations As A Thinker
Your writing is a mirror to your mind. A limited ability to write is usually an accurate reflection of a limited ability to think. Buckley’s limitations as a writer reflect his limitations as a man. Sam Tanenhaus argues that William … Continue reading
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Jonah Goldberg Yearns For Quality Criticism
I tell Grok: I find Jonah Goldberg hilarious in this interview. The author of Liberal Fascism yearns for high quality criticism and intellectual honesty when his own work is shallow. Grab the tastiest parts and build on my idea. See … Continue reading
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NYT: In Multilevel Marketing, Sleight of Hand Is Simply the Rule of Doing Business
The New York Times reports on this new book, Little Bosses Everywhere: How the Pyramid Scheme Shaped America: Bridget Read’s “Little Bosses Everywhere” exposes the deceptions of direct-selling companies that make their profit not off customers but off their own … Continue reading
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Why have so many conservatives been debanked?
Grok says: The question of why many conservatives claim to have been debanked—meaning their bank accounts were closed or services denied—doesn’t have a single, clear-cut answer backed by comprehensive data. It’s a messy issue, with allegations flying from conservative circles, … Continue reading
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‘The Long Con: Mail-Order Conservatism’
I asked Grok about this November 2012 Rick Pearlstein essay and how well it holds up today: Rick Perlstein’s essay “The Long Con,” published in The Baffler in November 2012, dives into the world of conservative direct-mail campaigns, multilevel marketing … Continue reading
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‘Imposing a status penalty on members helps keep conservative organizations conservative’
Aaron Renn writes: The more liberal churches such as the mainline denominations have been bleeding people for decades. They are often boring and with an attendee base that skews older. More conservative evangelical churches are much younger, more vibrant, have … Continue reading
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The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism
Matthew Continetti writes in this 2022 book: * Isolationists paid no price for opposing intervention before Pearl Harbor. One scholar identified 115 isolationist candidates headed into the 1942 midterm elections; only 5 lost. By the last year of the war, … Continue reading
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The Embodied Expression Of The Elite Attitude
In his Oct. 7, 2024 “Israel Update” video with the Hudson Institute’s Middle East analyst Michael Doran, right-wing Israeli historian Gadi Taub selected this as his dumbest media commentary moment of the week: “[Journalist] Ilana Dayan speaking on CNN to … Continue reading
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Richard Hanania Is A Troll
According to Wikipedia: Richard Hanania is an American political science researcher and right-wing political commentator. Hanania is the founder and president of the think tank Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology (CSPI). Between 2008 and the early 2010s … Continue reading
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The Two-Tier Society aka Some Identities Are Sacred (8-11-24)
01:00 Kamala Harris’s trajectory, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uORV3iWiLu408:00 Whoever was running Youtube in 2018 would have been forced to censor as Susan Wojcicki did, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Wojcicki09:45 Do you support order or radical riots? 11:00 Expanding Rights For One Group Usually Comes At The Expense … Continue reading
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