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Jul 3, 2024 | public.substack.com | Michael Shellenberger

I was honored when my friend Winston Marshall asked me to give the first talk at his new Dissident Dialogues. What you see here is the latest evolution of my thinking and the basis for the creation of a new NGO, Civilization Works. I hope you enjoy it! — MichaelI think we can all agree that America has some really big problems.

Jul 2, 2024 | public.substack.com | Michael Shellenberger

This morning, Jeh Johnson, the former Secretary of Homeland Security under Obama, went on MSNBC to make the case for Joe Biden's stay in the race. "A presidency is more than just one man… I would take Joe Biden at his worst day at age 86 so long as he has people around him like Avril Haines, Sam Power, Gina Raimondo supporting him, over Trump any day."I’m sorry, but democracy doesn’t work that way. Americans elected Joe Biden, not Avril Haines, Sam Power, and Gina Raimondo.

Jul 1, 2024 | public.substack.com | Michael Shellenberger

Over the last seven years, Democrats and the mainstream news media have repeatedly characterized Donald Trump as “abnormal.” Said HBO’s John Oliver in 2016, “He is not normal. He is abnormal.” On January 31, 2017, a week after Trump took office, the New York Times published an essay on “The Abnormal Presidency of Donald Trump.” One month later, it published another essay asking, “Just How Abnormal Is the Trump Presidency?

Jun 30, 2024 | public.substack.com | Michael Shellenberger

“ Are you going to be the next Democratic nominee?” a foreign reporter asked California Governor Gavin Newsom at last Thursday’s presidential debate. “No, our nominee is Joe Biden,” Newsom said. “I'm looking forward to voting for him in November.”After his disastrous performance, President Biden affirmed that he would not drop out of the race and would debate Trump as scheduled in September. Meanwhile, many analysts believe replacing Biden now would be near-impossible.

Jun 29, 2024 | public.substack.com | Michael Shellenberger

For years, leading medical organizations, the mainstream news media, and Democratic politicians have argued that surgeons should be able to operate on the bodies of minors who identify as transgender. They argued that it would be immoral to prevent adolescents from removing and modifying body parts so they resemble those of the opposite sex. Indeed, they claimed, doing so could end up causing them to commit suicide.