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I honestly never thought that anything was going to surprise me anymore about US politics, let alone shock me. There’s always been some degree of plausible deniability involved in the insinuation that Donald Trump and his party are “racist”—not that I’m among the deniers (on a scale
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As many of you know by now, I’m somewhat critical of capitalism, which is why it might surprise many of you to learn that, in my weaker moments, I yearn for the return of the days of relentless, ubiquitous advertising. I’m not just referring to some of those
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On July 13, at a Pennsylvania campaign rally, the then-only-presumptive Republican nominee for president, a guy named Donald Trump who might be familiar to you if you follow the news closely, was shot in the ear by a kid who managed to sneak a gun onto the roof of a
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If you ever want to invoke in yourself the desire to throw your body headfirst into a threshing machine then simply wade into an internet discussion that is ostensibly about communism. Or socialism, or for that matter, capitalism. You will quickly find out that nobody knows what any of these
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I’ve been hearing the name “Curtis Yarvin” a lot in recent weeks, mainly due to his connections to Donald Trump’s running mate JD Vance. In researching Vance’s ideological underpinnings the media is only just now discovering this Yarvin guy and his bizarre political philosophy. But I’d
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The Alien series has a very strong brand, deceptively so for a film franchise with, by most people’s reckoning, two hits. After 1986’s Aliens, the series has been limping along on the excess energy generated by those first two phenomenal movies. Only the Terminator series has gone to
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For the month of February only, I am sending out some previously published articles on Mondays for new readers. Brand new material will continue to run each Friday. One of the wildest things to me about the first Trump presidency, along with everything else about it, was always the ways
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So the newly selected Democratic Party nominee for president is a black lady and also the term “DEI” is trending again. This is about as surprising as night following day, the tides coming in, or Tesla missing a deadline. Anyone who claims at this point that “DEI” isn’t a
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Earlier this year I wrote about the strange fact that Elon Musk had yet to endorse Donald Trump for president, even though their politics match up in just about every significant way. Musk, though he claims to have voted for Obama, has been a die hard Republican for some time,
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I initially wrote this piece before the assassination attempt on Donald Trump last weekend. It was published the morning that happened, just before it happened, but made available at the time only to paid subscribers, because I have recently adopted a gimmick whereby paid subscribers get all my articles a
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Over the past few years Taylor Swift has risen to become, apparently, the most influential celebrity in the world, and this is a great benchmark for me to use to finally admit that I am old, because Taylor Swift marks the first time in my life that the most influential
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I like Substack a lot. I don’t know what I’d be doing as a writer during the sunset of social media if I hadn’t found the last platform on the internet that links writers up with each other and with potential audiences. The true community potential of