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Category Archives: Martin Gurri
Stephen Turner’s Unfinished Work: Gaps, Needed Boldness, and a Freer Intellectual Trajectory
Stephen Turner’s reconstruction of democratic theory begins as an act of intellectual hygiene. Strip away the myths. Discard the will of the people, justice, and the rule of law as normative ideals. What remains is procedure. Law is a hierarchy … Continue reading
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Gurri’s Avalanche Has No Blueprint
Martin Gurri’s column arrives like the Category 5 hurricane he invokes. The post-Cold War rules-based order was never rules or order, he argues. It was a polite fiction masking American decline and elite self-preservation. Trump has torn the fiction away. … Continue reading
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Shorter Martin Gurri
Arnold Kling blogs: 1. Starting around 2000, the amount of information on the Internet doubles in a year. If that goes on for ten years, there would have been 420 million times the information in 2010 as in 2000. Even … Continue reading
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The Revolt Of The Public
Martin Gurri tells Matt Taibbi: * Content moderation, in my opinion, isn’t really a movement but part of this delusional thinking. The idea is to make the great digital platforms look like the front page of the New York Times … Continue reading
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Free Britney
I was watching this New York Times documentary about the extraordinary situation of pop singer Britney Spears, 39, who’s been in conservatorship for 13 years. According to Wikipedia: “A guardian or a protector is appointed by a judge to manage … Continue reading
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Renewing Trust in America’s Institutions
If you are not interested in restoring trust, rightfully earned, in our key institutions, you are a nihilist. You just want to destroy. I suspect that in the dissident spheres, there is one hundred times more interest in tearing down … Continue reading
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Surmounting five riddles of the information sphere
Martin Gurri writes: “The hypothesis, which seems to me the most fertile,” wrote Walter Lippmann back in 1922, “is that news and truth are not the same thing, and must be clearly distinguished.” Lippmann found truth in the analysis of … Continue reading
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