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  • 4 days ago | newyorker.com | Ava Kofman

    We’re conducting a health check on American democracy. In a new section that we’re calling “How Bad Is It?” we’ll be taking stock of the latest threats to civic life, with context from our experts—starting with Ronan Farrow on Elon Musk’s alleged drug use. But, first, how the blogger Curtis Yarvin became one of America’s most influential illiberal thinkers.

  • 5 days ago | newyorker.com | Ava Kofman

    In the spring and summer of 2008, when Donald Trump was still a registered Democrat, an anonymous blogger known as Mencius Moldbug posted a serial manifesto under the heading “An Open Letter to Open-Minded Progressives.” Written with the sneering disaffection of an ex-believer, the hundred-and-twenty-thousand-word letter argued that egalitarianism, far from improving the world, was actually responsible for most of its ills.

  • 5 days ago | rsn.org | Ava Kofman

    The reactionary blogger’s call for a monarch to rule the country once seemed like a joke. Now the right is ready to bend the knee.

  • Oct 2, 2024 | msn.com | Ava Kofman

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  • Oct 1, 2024 | propublica.org | Ava Kofman |Doug Bock Clark |Andy Kroll |Audrey Dutton

    ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Oil tycoons Tim Dunn and Farris Wilks have pushed the Texas statehouse to the far right by funding relentless primary campaigns against other Republicans. The Texas statehouse is advancing policies that threaten the separation between church and state. Dunn is now linked to think tanks that are jockeying to influence a second Trump administration.

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