Persuasion

18 hours ago | persuasion.community | John McWhorter

A graduate school colleague told me that her subfield of linguistics was more valid as science than the subfield some other students were working in. Her metric was that the findings in her subfield were more counterintuitive, as opposed to applying terminology to things we basically know are true already. I didn’t like it. My work was commonly (mis-)associated with the kind she was dissing. I sensed that she thought me more well-spoken than exactly brilliant. Diplomatic she was not.

1 day ago | persuasion.community | Yascha Mounk

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5 days ago | persuasion.community | Yascha Mounk

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6 days ago | persuasion.community | Damon Linker

Nearly three months into the second Trump administration, a few things have become clear. For one thing, the president aims to push executive power to its absolute limit, with Congress responding passively to the power-grabs and the judiciary standing alone in attempting to prevent the thoroughgoing breakdown of the separation of powers and its replacement by unitary, dictatorial rule by Donald Trump.

1 week ago | persuasion.community | Yascha Mounk

Not quite ready to outsource your reading to ChatGPT yet? Support those old-fashioned human creators trying to help you make sense of the world by becoming a paying subscriber today!Recently, an enthusiast of the classics posted four translations of a passage from The Odyssey on X, asking his followers to pick their favorite.