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"We got him!" cheered protesters, headlines. What did they get?
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Published 06/08/24
One of the co-founders of the Heterodox Academy returns to his academic specialty with a hair-raising warning about the digital age
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Published 06/08/24
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Going on strike from it all.
Published 05/30/24
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In a possible preview of our future, a Twitter contractor proposed aggressive solutions for speech, including putting users in "voids" and replacing their content with pet pics
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Published 05/29/24
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"If I'm being honest...This type of approach was common practice in the USSR."
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Published 05/29/24
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When Stanford's Election Integrity Partnership stirred up controversy, its participants defiantly planned a rerun for this year
Published 05/29/24
The Great Bipartisan Constitution-shredding project of 2024 continues at breakneck speed
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Published 05/16/24
Should we teach more knowledge and less process? Why has knowledge become a bad word? Racket catches up with K-12 expert Natalie Wexler, author of "The Knowledge Gap"
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Published 05/16/24
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Life sentences for speech? Pre-crime detention? Ex post facto law? Anonymous accusers? It's all in Justin Trudeau's "Online Harms Bill," a true "threat to democracy"
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Published 05/14/24
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Five years of bitterness between Joe Biden and the country's most influential newspaper burst into the open this week, opening a door for a press comeback
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Published 05/14/24
The latest "What happened to you, man?" piece goes next-level
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Published 05/09/24
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How out of control is our surveillance state? Read about a dubious investigation that swept up communications of some of the country's most senior highest officials, and their families, in secret
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Published 05/07/24
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The standard-bearer for the "Voters are too dumb to understand the economy" movement takes an ironic stand against "magical thinking"
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Published 05/07/24
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If you think you spent twenty years being ripped off while a generation of rent-seeking scam artists was showered with public subsidies, experts agree: your "perception" needs
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Published 04/29/24
Making high finance accessible to ordinary readers, one financial "shit burger" at a time.
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Published 04/29/24
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After betraying voters to lead a weekend wipeout in Congress for the war-and-spying crowd, Mike Johnson was granted honorary "adult" status by adoring pundits
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Published 04/25/24
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On a Saturday to mark and remember, congress funds two wars and hands the intelligence agencies sweeping new surveillance power, getting nothing in return
Published 04/25/24
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ESPN star Stephen A. Smith articulates what sports fans everywhere are thinking about Trump's trials
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Published 04/22/24
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Thoughts on the resignation of the former NPR senior editor
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Published 04/22/24
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A story about facts and decency is quickly reduced to another partisan bias tale.
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Published 04/14/24
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Q&A With Coleman Hughes, author of "The End of Race Politics," who just experienced the mother of all book tour appearances
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Published 04/08/24
He's a bestselling writer with a penchant for bikes, but "Archedelia" author Matthew Crawford offers a new kind of wisdom. A Substack Q&A
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Published 04/01/24
A few thoughts on the arrival of a new Fahrenheit 451 future. Plus, a few mild site changes
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Published 04/01/24
Surely this is the funniest media story of the year?
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Published 04/01/24