Political Communication Professor at GWU. I write a lot about the history and future of tech and politics. Best known for that one time I made fun of Bret Stephens.
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To put it another way, I think Musk’s purchase of Twitter has helped reify the vague pundit instinct that Trump in some way channels the will of an inchoate true Volk, because now the voice of the Volk speaks through X, the everything app
One thing I learned when I was just out of college and watching 6-8 hours of Fox News a day for my research job at Media Matters: Ingesting hours of propaganda on a daily basis changes you, no matter how smart you think you are. If you don't notice the changes, that just makes you an easier mark.
Which country do you think we’ll lose a war to next?
if you know ball, you know that this election is not actually the mayoral election (that's November), but the Democratic party primary. which means that Andrew Cuomo has the opportunity to do the funniest thing
me, walking into the British museum
States do not need to contract with companies owned by oligarchs who seek those states' demise.
No matter what services an anti-democracy oligarch's company provides, it is not in the national interest of any democracy to send them money.
Some in Europe apparently realizing that. And acting on it.
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