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2 weeks ago |
americanaffairsjournal.org | David Polansky |Julius Krein
REVIEW ESSAYThe Reactionary Spirit:How America’s Most Insidious Political Tradition Swept the Worldby Zack BeauchampPublicAffairs, 2024, 272 pagesHayek’s Bastards:Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Rightby Quinn SlobodianZone Books, 2025, 272 pagesFollowing her defeat in the 2016 general election, Hillary Clinton published a book titled What Happened.
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3 weeks ago |
wisdomofcrowds.live | Damir Marusic |Shadi Hamid |David Polansky
Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -47:27Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Our special guest this week, is a political theorist and commentator who lives in Canada. A frequent contributor to Wisdom of Crowds, he joins and to discuss two excellent recent essays.
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Jan 10, 2025 |
thehub.ca | David Polansky
You need to be angrier. Of course, anger is most often not a good thing. It clouds judgment, it leads to rashness and poor decision-making. Anger in politics is worse still: it is the food of charlatans and demagogues; it encourages us to see our fellow citizens as enemies rather than just rivals or opponents in the political sphere; it produces bad policies. And yet a deficiency of anger produces its own problems.
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Jan 9, 2025 |
wisdomofcrowds.live | David Polansky
, our Canada correspondent (and more), on Justin Trudeau’s political failure, and what we can learn from it. — Santiago Ramos, Executive EditorOne of the original proposed names for Monty Python’s Flying Circus was supposedly “Whither Canada?” This once comical question is now being asked sincerely and with increasing urgency — and not just by Canadians. For the declining fortunes of the United States’ northern neighbor have reached the point that they have generated unprecedented attention.
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Jan 2, 2025 |
washingtonexaminer.com | David Polansky
In viewing A Complete Unknown, I must admit to remaining mystified that rock biopics continue to get made at all in the wake of Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, the hysterically funny and tragically underseen 2007 parody of basically every rockstar biopic ever made. Indeed, so comprehensive is its satire that the titular Cox even goes through his own Dylan phase, during which he spouts pure gibberish and his own bandmates cannot figure out what is going on.
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