Sherman argues in the interview that without the Iran deal, “you’d probably be at war.” Flournoy agrees, in an answer that is particularly revealing as to how she and the others choose to interpret Trump’s Alpha Male theory of the…
Monthly Archives: February 2017
Looking into the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way – The Guardian
[I]f Einstein’s equations break down anywhere, they are most likely to do so at the edge of a black hole, where the fabric of space-time is being stretched more severely than any other place in the cosmos. As Laing says:…
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Tweets toward an Inquiry into Inquiry, in relation to Ideologies
There are progressive and liberal ideologies or ideological constructs, but the desirability of progress and its attainment via rational and open (“liberal”) inquiry remain pre-conditions of any authentic (authentically “discursive”) discussion.
All the News that’s Fit to Kill (OAG #8)
The Post appears to be promising to narrate the death of democracy – or, if unconsciously, to be revealing an intention to embody it.
Bret Stephens: Don’t Dismiss Trump’s Attacks on the Media as Mere Stupidity – TIME
The most painful aspect of this has been to watch people I previously considered thoughtful and principled conservatives give themselves over to a species of illiberal politics from which I once thought they were immune. In his 1953 masterpiece, “The…
Anne Applebaum: The specter of Trump in Munich – The Washington Post
The precarious feeling of uncertainty will nonetheless persist, at least until U.S. authority, in Europe or anywhere else, is seriously challenged. And there are signs that a challenge is coming. In the past few days, the Russian government has recognized…
: The American Experiment in Exile – TPM
Our partners in the international order we created – some of whom we conquered to make it possible – are now seeking to defend it from us. Let’s say that again, Defend it from us. How do we now as…
Better Twitter Embeds 2: Stripping the Convo for the Sake of the Convo
A few months ago, I noted a technique for stripping Twitter embeds of extraneous conversation, involving setting the tweet attribute “data-conversation” to “none.” What I provided was more hack than add-on, and required a somewhat laborious process of copying the…
On Emulating the TP vs Trump’s GOP
“Remember when everyone lectured Tea Party they should speak sweetly to woo liberals & so they toned down & then they won 2010? / Me neither.”
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