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- The Room Around the Argument: Audience Sorting at Outside the Beltway, 2003-2026
- Steven Taylor, James Joyner and the E-Personality: Aboujaoude’s Virtually You Tested on Twenty Years of Outside the Beltway
- Amy Wax and the E-Personality: A Claim-Level Analysis, 1996-2026
- After Cathy’s Table: How Digital Platforms Reshaped a Generation of Professional Writers
- Nathan Cofnas and the E-Personality: The Auditor, the Performer, and the Cambridge Investigation
- The E-Personality of the Public Intellectual
- NYT: ‘What Do Students Lose When They Stop Writing?’
- Another National Treasure is Falling to AI (Fiction)
- What Percentage of Philip N. Cohen’s Blog Passes the Front Page Test?
- Paul Bloom’s Small Potatoes Archive
- The Two Accusations
- I Believe Everybody, Including Iran, Acts Rationally in Pursuit of their own Interests
- The Set, the Voice & the Anthropology of Philip N. Cohen
- WP: ‘Trump’s Harvard loss conceals a strategic victory’
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* Why Does Australia Produce So Many Great Journalists? (6-11-26)
* Steve Wynn and the Press: Power, Litigation, and the Contest Over Las Vegas (6-3-26)
* Sheldon Adelson and the Journalists (6-3-26)
* The Vigilant Animal: Thinkers Who Reject the Myth of Human Gullibility (6-2-26)
* The Cost of Refusing the Misunderstanding Myth (6-2-26)
* Show Me How It Travels (6-2-26)
* The Norm Explainers (6-2-26)
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* What would it look like if the Washington Post put its reader first? (6-1-26)
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Monthly Archives: July 2025
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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The American Bar Association Pushes Anti-White Discrimination
Attorney Alison Somin writes: Law schools are desperately changing hiring and admissions policies to increase diversity—not because of their own internal objectives, but because of pressure from accrediting agencies. New research from Pacific Legal Foundation reveals how the American Bar … Continue reading
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Elite Rule
Do elites rule America? Are American elites united? How close are American elites to division, thus undermining elite rule? “Elites rule through particular strategies and fail through typical issues. Elite solidarity is essential to elite rule; division among the elite … Continue reading
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I Will Always Love You
LA County coastline included in the tsunami watch. pic.twitter.com/fMP77X01dy — Los Angeles Alerts (@AlertLosAngeles) July 30, 2025 A tsunami is coming. Just once I’d like to be blindsided by something *pleasant*. As the waters rise, I stand firm—not because I … Continue reading
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Liberals Applauded When Civil Rights Reoriented The Basis Of American Life
Gemini: Sam Tanenhaus, in his recent biography, Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America, delves into how civil rights played a pivotal role in shaping and reorienting the basis of American life, especially within the conservative movement led … Continue reading
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What’s the payoff people get from denying the obvious importance of AI?
I love AI. It has profoundly enhanced the quality of my life. I get to explore immediately whatever I am interested in, whether its cosmic ideas or embarrassing feelings. I get to do more work with more accuracy. I create … Continue reading
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Have China, America & Russia Agreed To Divide Up The World Into Spheres Of Influence?
Mark Halperin Monologue Transcript At The 54:14 Mark: “My reporting has long suggested that almost everything going on now—Greenland, Panama, the trade war, NATO, even Gaza—is about making a big play to pitch to China to carve up the world. … Continue reading
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Making Democratic Theory Democratic: Democracy, Law, and Administration after Weber and Kelsen
Here are some highlights from this 2023 book by Stephen Turner and George Mazur: * The term “administrative state” is now being treated as an invention of the paranoid Right and a misunderstanding of the nature of the state itself. … Continue reading
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Trump Uses Allegations Of Anti-Semitism To Protect Whites & Asians From Racial Discrimination
In this deal with Columbia University, it looks like the Trump administration is creating a template for leveraging allegations of anti-semitism to protect asians and whites from racial discrimination from America’s most powerful institutions. ChatGPT says: The Trump-era moves—like the … Continue reading
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How To Spot A Pedo In The Wild (7-27-25)
01:00 Pedos, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=16231004:00 Seeing Through the Noise: Why Ordinary People Are Less Gullible Than Elites Think, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=16241808:00 All men are incels: the bitter truth, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6xYHK3lrnk18:00 Aaron Maté: New Docs Show FBI and NSA Never Believed Trump Worked with Russia, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=16241220:00 … Continue reading
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