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Monthly Archives: July 2016
Bloomberg: Let’s elect a sane, competent person – YouTube
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David Von Drehle: Democrats Try on the Conservative Mantle Shed by the GOP – TIME
Nominating Trump opened a wide lane for the Democrats, and while their own surging left wing would never allow them to fill it all, they occupied parts of it. President Obama’s Wednesday night speech rang notes of human fallibility and…
Masha Gessen: The Trump-Putin Fallacy – The New York Review of Books
Mikhail Khodorkovsky, one of the richest men in the world, could not imagine that Putin would put him in jail, and this was one of the reasons he ignored repeated warnings and stayed in Russia. Then he spent ten years…
Jennifer Rubin: 10 silver linings for Republicans – The Washington Post
7. There is newfound camaraderie among principled conservatives, moderates and libertarians in their rejection of Trumpism. They recognize that specific differences on specific issues pale in comparison with some shared values and insistence on character as a requirement for Republican office-seekers.…
Zack Beauchamp: A Republican intellectual explains why the Republican Party is going to die – Vox
I’ve read dozens of conservative intellectuals writing compellingly about non-racist conservative ideals. Writers like Andrew Sullivan, Ross Douthat, Reihan Salam, Michael Brendan Dougherty, and too many others to count have put forward visions of a conservative party quite different from…
Hisham Melhem: The Republic of fear and loathing – Al Arabiya English
Trump and his lieutenants repeatedly savaged his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton and all but declared her as the Devil incarnate. Wild chants of “lock her up” or “Hillary for prison” were the background chorus to many speeches. In fact, Ben…
Bar-Yam and Bar-Yam: A lesson in the errors of statistical thinking: Nate Silver on Trump – Medium
Nate Silver is one of the most highly regarded statisticians of sports, politics and other domains [1]. During the 2016 presidential campaign, his early analysis of the chances of Donald Trump becoming Republican nominee stands out — he estimated only a 2%…
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Katherine Miller: How Donald Trump Broke The Conservative Movement (And My Heart) – BuzzFeed News
…[W]e’re currently witnessing rapid shifts in: the geopolitics of Europe and the Middle East, the politics of U.S. and Russian hegemony, the demographic makeup of the United States, the way we buy things, the way we communicate. The reality is…
The Overrated Threat From Electromagnetic Pulses – War Is Boring
“EMP is the new test case of seriousness in national security,” cyber security expert Peter W. Singer tweeted after reading the platform. “But not in the way advocates not in on the joke think.” https://twitter.com/peterwsinger/status/755804056149434368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw I reached out to Singer…