A truly beautiful—and powerful—retrospective by @andycraig.bsky.social in @theunpopulist.net on the intellectual giant we just lost: the historian Gordon Wood.
Gordon Wood understood the genius of our founding better than the Founders themselves. Rest in Peace, sir.
Oh, hey, how's the heterodoxification of CBS News going?
How Do You Do, Fellow Teens?
And if you didn't catch it when it came out, her deeper dive in @thebulwark.com on this theme is must-read material.
Berny Belvedere
"100 million deportations" is catching on, thanks to the Trump admin advocacy. It reinforces the importance of birthright citizenship. I explain how the 14th amendment was implemented in part to stop ethnic cleansing and how Trump wants to undermine it
www.theunpopulist.net/p/trump-isnt...
There was just no way to see this coming!
I realize I'm biased, but there is no person in the entire game who has a clearer grasp on how badly the libertarian movement missed this moment than @shikhadalmia.bsky.social. Read this.
The incumbency advantage means that once elected, our rulers never have to leave office
The recent Yale report's ostensive purpose was self examination of elite universities' failure. But dig deeper into what it doesn't say, and it becomes clear that it was really trying to manage optics at a time of regime hostility. By moi at @theunpopulist.net
open.substack.com/pub/theunpop...
Berny Belvedere
Andy Craig
Thankfully the Supreme Court is unlikely to scrap birthright citizenship, because that would open the door to mass ethnic cleansing
Its splashy self-examination reads less like a serious reform agenda than a carefully choreographed contrition statement aimed at a hostile administration
If, like me, you're incensed about Trump and his redpillionaire-powered desecration of our democracy, you'll agree that part of the blame for that ought to be laid at the feet of his enablers.
One especially prominent enabler, certainly within centrist and center-right spaces, was The Free Press
Berny Belvedere
Berny Belvedere
The publication has lost its way and is radicalizing the more sophisticated right
