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2 weeks ago |
compactmag.substack.com | Geoff Shullenberger
In a recent Financial Timesfeature, the literary scholar Orlando Reade traces a phenomenon that has also been of interest to me for over a decade: the influence of René Girard on a growing subset of the American right. The starting point of Reade’s discussion is the conversion experience of sorts that JD Vance experienced at a 2011 speech given by Peter Thiel at Yale Law School.
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3 weeks ago |
compactmag.substack.com | Geoff Shullenberger
I haven’t followed Chris Hayes’s career all that closely, and I don’t think I’ve ever seen his show, but my general prejudices about MSNBC hosts didn’t lead me to expect all that much when I got a review copy of The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource.
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3 weeks ago |
substackfwd.xyz | Geoff Shullenberger
I haven’t followed Chris Hayes’s career all that closely, and I don’t think I’ve ever seen his show, but my general prejudices about MSNBC hosts didn’t lead me to expect all that much when I got a review copy of The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource.
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3 weeks ago |
compactmag.substack.com | Geoff Shullenberger |Ashley Frawley
Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -1:15:53Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Ashley Frawley joins Geoff Shullenberger to discuss her Compact column, "How Society Got a Sex Change," and its relevance to the evolution of liberalism.
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4 weeks ago |
compactmag.substack.com | Geoff Shullenberger
Various of the Trump administration’s initiatives of the past three months seem to have been informed by a class theory of politics derived from the work of James Burnham and his intellectual progeny. The theory is roughly the following: “Woke” is the ideology of the managerial class; therefore, the way to defeat woke is to go after the institutions that sustain that class.
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