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3 weeks ago | 
graboyes.substack.com | Robert Graboyes
Paid subscriptions ($50/year or $5/month) really help, but we love free subscribers, too. Substack (Bastiat’s Window in particular) is loaded with intelligent, talkative, thoughtful commenters. My recent tariff pieces (“Tired of Winning, Apparently” and “Real-World Trade-Deficit Math-Magic,”) and one older one (“The Gulf of Trump”) elicited tens of thousands of page views, hundreds of comments, and dozens of emails.
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1 month ago | 
graboyes.substack.com | Robert Graboyes
Paid subscriptions ($50/year or $5/month) really help, but we love free subscribers, too. In 2016, Donald Trump promised, “We’re gonna win so much that you may get tired of winning.” His advisors must have reached that point, as evidenced by the bizarre, incoherent “Liberation Day” tariff policy they helped craft.
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1 month ago | 
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Paid subscriptions ($50/year or $5/month) really help, but we love free subscribers, too. Portions of this essay were adapted from my “Digital Life — No Room to Hide,” published in 2017 by InsideSources. Privacy, it turns out, may have been a vanishingly brief phenomenon in human history.
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2 months ago | 
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Paid subscriptions ($50/year or $5/month) really help, but we love free subscribers, too. I’ve invited 30 mystery guests from across many centuries to attend a 21st century costume party. Each image was produced in seconds by AI (Grok)—though in some cases, it took several tweaks of the prompt to get the right image. I’ll wait till later in the week to reveal their identities, leaving you time to ponder who they might be.
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2 months ago | 
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2 months ago | 
graboyes.substack.com | Robert Graboyes
Paid subscriptions ($50/year or $5/month) really help, but we love free subscribers, too.
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2 months ago | 
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Paid subscriptions ($50/year or $5/month) really help, but we love free subscribers, too. It is impossible to understand Hamas without knowing its historical pedigree.
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2 months ago | 
graboyes.substack.com | Robert Graboyes
Paid subscriptions ($50/year or $5/month) really help, but we love free subscribers, too. Over at the Persuasion substack, Sam Kahn looks at Donald Trump’s stands on economics, immigration, and foreign policy and asks whether “Trump Is Actually Warren Harding” (or Calvin Coolidge or Herbert Hoover). He asserts that Trump “is reversing the New Deal and sending us back to … the 1920s.”Whether Trump’s end goal is a pre-New Deal, Harding-esque presidency is a worthy topic for discussion.
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Feb 9, 2025 | 
graboyes.substack.com | Robert Graboyes
Sometimes, a mind-bending story writes itself in reverse. Such a case came before me the week before last, in a social media post that—as I came to realize—offered many of the things I love most: a fine musical composition; a superb performance; the French language; a family of prodigies; the conquest of horrific illness by technology; stories of triumph over personal adversity; righteous mentorship; and a relentless urge to remold one’s own struggles into a catalyst for good.
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Jan 19, 2025 | 
graboyes.substack.com | Robert Graboyes
A couple of people asked about making posters available for Item [3], published last week. Feel free to download these graphics, share them, print them, and frame them. If you have any problems with the files, just write me at [email protected]. Above is a reconfigured version of my “New and Improved Super-Definitive Presidential Rankings” from November 11, 2024. That article slightly updated the Super-Definitive Presidential Rankings offered on August 29, 2024.