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The Desperation of Republican Elites

By Erik Loomis

In General

On August 20, 2023

I enjoyed this piece on the desperation of Republican elites for a Magic Candidate like Youngkin or Kemp (how magical!!) to drop from the sky and win the nomination because they continue to have not grasped that GOP voters care absolutely nothing about them and...

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The Mental Gymnastics of Our University Elites

By Erik Loomis

On April 28, 2023

I don't know if the president of Harvard is trying to get Stalinist poetry written about him, but he certainly is serving the needs of the extremely rich. That's true.

Chloe Lewis Well, since 2020 that makes sense, yeah? We occasionally think about getting a housemate and then remember that only a hermit could live with us without blowing our Covid protocols.
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bookworm1398 If you are looking for a silver lining for RFK - he wants to go after soda and snacks, ban them in schools, ban certain ingredients, add more labeling. This at least is something I can get behind.
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djw It is; I used to use it a lot but less lately. The tofu peanut dip was a go-to for me for a long time but I haven't made it in forever
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Chet Murthy Indeed. Those people are selecting experts to support their predetermined conclusion, not selecting experts for their expertise, and then following their judgments even when they're...
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Chloe Lewis There’s a sort of separate thing that I think of as the Geoffrey West curve — he did a lot of the theoretical+empirical work saying that (my summary) cities make people richer the bigger/denser...
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