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Jan 12, 2025 | 
carousel.blog | Isaac Simpson
Why did Gavin Newsom lie about his promise to conduct one million acres of controlled burns, over-stating them by 690%? Why didn’t Rick Caruso’s properties burn while everything else did? What’s the primary cause of the LA fire? Arson? Empty reservoirs? Bad forest management? What does containment actually mean? Why don’t we do controlled burns like the Native Americans did?
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
carousel.blog | Isaac Simpson
I’m joined by friend and fascinating thinker (tbh one of the most fascinating) James Poulos. We’re here to talk about the launch of his incredible new glossy Frontier Magazine, the based culture magazine we’ve all been waiting for. I have a piece about the El Segundo tech revolution in said magazine, you can read the intro here:
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
americanmind.org | Isaac Simpson
On a long drive the day after Trump’s victory, after absolutely no sleep, deeply hungover, I turned to liberal radio as a much-needed painkiller. First I tried NPR, but even their coping and seething was too appalling to bear. So I sought out another source: Pod Save America, the famous podcast hosted by three famous former Obama staffers known for being Very Good Boys.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
carousel.blog | PostModern ConservativeRetrieving antiquity |Titus Techera |Isaac Simpson
Talking with fascinating poster Titus Techera about his article “The Third Wave of Journalism,” in which he argues that the era of heroic objective journalism was no more than a fleeting manifestation of Boomer naivety, and that the internet has heralded a return to the natural state of pamphleteering.
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Jun 20, 2024 | 
americanmind.org | Isaac Simpson
Sometimes someone says something that sounds so true that it becomes a maxim, and the maxim gets repeated so many times that no one stops to ask how true it actually is. This is what happened to Andrew Breitbart’s “Politics is downstream from culture,” which, while true, isn’t as true as the intellectual Right’s think piece army has decided it is. In fact, nothing is that true.
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Jun 18, 2024 | 
carousel.blog | Isaac Simpson
On playing it at is lays with handsome bearded Christian, Kingpilled. Check out his YouTube where he does a ton of streams. We chat about his appearance on The Pete Quinones Show, where he discusses the PayPal Mafia building a counter-elite. This is the idea that Thiel etc are working to create parallel institutions on a grand scale. That episode is here:Video of our chat here:
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May 16, 2024 | 
carousel.blog | Isaac Simpson
Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. This week I’m joined by promising young man Nate Hochman. One of our pre-eminent thinkers, Nate writes for American Spectator, among other places. He serves as Senior Adviser for DC think tank America 2100. Writer Isaac Simpson explores the world through the lens of modern propaganda. Writer Isaac Simpson explores the world through the lens of modern propaganda.
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Apr 30, 2024 | 
tabletmag.com | Isaac Simpson
Say to your 3-year-old daughter “I am the king.” Her response will be something along the lines, “No, I am the king.” Maybe “no, Mama is the king.” Perhaps “no, you’re the elephant.” She certainly will not say “yes, you are the king” or “you are a great king.” She will flip the hierarchy so that you, the closest thing to a king she knows, is anything but. I remember my time as a communist. A brief, angry, dark time. I’d left a career in law and been fired from another one in advertising.
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Jan 19, 2024 | 
americanmind.org | Isaac Simpson
The business suit once set the comfortably affluent apart from the proles.
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Jan 11, 2024 | 
americanmind.org | Isaac Simpson
As a selfless act of customer service, I addicted myself to TikTok. The client was a large sandwich chain. Its marketing department, like every marketing department, dreamt of breaking the internet with a totally rad viral TikTok campaign. Nothing forced. Something the kids actually want to share in a way that’s like, you know…organic. They wanted to speak Gen Z, which they thought would be as easy as learning fluent Millennial.
