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    <title>’The Bearded Patriot’ publishes conservative ‘news’ hoping to gather email addresses - The Washington Post</title>
    <dc:date>2020-11-29T19:38:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/08/11/evans-disinformation-florida-email</link>
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    <title>False equivalencies: Online activism from left to right | Science</title>
    <dc:date>2020-09-04T18:28:11+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Digital media are critical for contemporary activism—even low-effort “clicktivism” is politically consequential and contributes to offline participation. We argue that in the United States and throughout the industrialized West, left- and right-wing activists use digital and legacy media differently to achieve political goals. Although left-wing actors operate primarily through “hashtag activism” and offline protest, right-wing activists manipulate legacy media, migrate to alternative platforms, and work strategically with partisan media to spread their messages. Although scholarship suggests that the right has embraced strategic disinformation and conspiracy theories more than the left, more research is needed to reveal the magnitude and character of left-wing disinformation. Such ideological asymmetries between left- and right-wing activism hold critical implications for democratic practice, social media governance, and the interdisciplinary study of digital politics."]]></description>
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    <title>All the President’s Crackpots | The Nation</title>
    <dc:date>2020-03-31T16:14:20+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/epstein-trump-coronavirus-crackpot/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Look, Epstein is a kook, but the idea that pathogens evolve to be milder _is_ one which many biologists used to advocate on Darwinian (not Lamarckian) grounds, on the simple basis that mutations which make a pathogen less lethal let it reproduce longer in the same host.  The difficulty with this line of argument is that a mutation which makes a pathogen _more_ lethal can be fitness-enhancing if it _also_ increases its rate of transmission.  (In an SIR model where the infection rate is b and the recovery/removal rate is c, R0 is b/c.  So, ceteris paribus, a mutation which decreases c by letting hosts live longer will be favored, but one which decreases c can be favored if it also increases b.  Here endeth the math-y excursion.)  Ewald's _Evolution of Infectious Disease_ (1996) goes over the older thinking, before explaining the mistakes.
And of course the rate of evolution of a virus will depend on how quickly _it_ reproduces, which can be very fast.  No inheritance of acquired characteristics is needed.  (IIRC, Hayek was fairly clear that he thought of social evolution as a Darwinian rather than Lamarckian process at the level of social practices and norms, but my memories of that are hazy.)
In short, Epstein is a crank who has no business opining about epidemiology, and he's an influential crank because he's embedded in a network of useful idiots, but he's not _exactly_ the type of crank Jeer is saying.  (More cautiously, Jeer hasn't proved his case.)]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2019-10-22T13:54:47+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Why are white evangelicals the most skeptical major religious group in America regarding climate change? Previous scholarship has pointed to cognitive factors such as conservative politics, anti-science attitudes, aversion to big government, and theology. Drawing on qualitative fieldwork, The Gospel of Climate Skepticism reveals the extent to which climate skepticism and anti-environmentalism have in fact become embedded in the social world of many conservative evangelicals. Rejecting the common assumption that evangelicals’ skepticism is simply a side effect of political or theological conservatism, the book further shows that between 2006 and 2015, leaders and pundits associated with the Christian Right widely promoted skepticism as the biblical position on climate change. The Gospel of Climate Skepticism offers a compelling portrait of how during a critical period of recent history, political and religious interests intersected to prevent evangelicals from offering a unified voice in support of legislative action to address climate change."

--- The phenomenon which may yet doom us all.]]></description>
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    <title>Network structure and influence of the climate change counter-movement | Nature Climate Change</title>
    <dc:date>2018-08-03T14:09:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nature.com/articles/nclimate2875</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Anthropogenic climate change represents a global threat to human well-being1,2,3 and ecosystem functioning4. Yet despite its importance for science and policy, our understanding of the causes of widespread uncertainty and doubt found among the general public remains limited. The political and social processes driving such doubt and uncertainty are difficult to rigorously analyse, and research has tended to focus on the individual-level, rather than the larger institutions and social networks that produce and disseminate contrarian information. This study presents a new approach by using network science to uncover the institutional and corporate structure of the climate change counter-movement, and machine-learning text analysis to show its influence in the news media and bureaucratic politics. The data include a new social network of all known organizations and individuals promoting contrarian viewpoints, as well as the entirety of all written and verbal texts about climate change from 1993–2013 from every organization, three major news outlets, all US presidents, and every occurrence on the floor of the US Congress. Using network and computational text analysis, I find that the organizational power within the contrarian network, and the magnitude of semantic similarity, are both predicted by ties to elite corporate benefactors."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/03/cambridge-analyticas-self-own/556016/">
    <title>Cambridge Analytica's Self-Own - The Atlantic</title>
    <dc:date>2018-03-25T17:38:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/03/cambridge-analyticas-self-own/556016/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I think it's important to keep in mind _both_ that this is scandalous mis-behavior _and_ that these people seem to be quacks...]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://balkin.blogspot.com/2017/10/corrupting-national-book-award.html">
    <title>Balkinization: Corrupting the National Book Award?</title>
    <dc:date>2017-10-26T19:42:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://balkin.blogspot.com/2017/10/corrupting-national-book-award.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>vast_right-wing_conspiracy running_dogs_of_reaction history_of_ideas 20th_century_history us_politics</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://bostonreview.net/class-inequality/henry-farrell-steven-m-teles-when-politics-drives-scholarship">
    <title>When Politics Drives Scholarship | Boston Review</title>
    <dc:date>2017-08-31T18:59:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://bostonreview.net/class-inequality/henry-farrell-steven-m-teles-when-politics-drives-scholarship</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>farrell.henry vast_right-wing_conspiracy book_reviews 20th_century_history us_politics economics political_economy kith_and_kin have_read</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/7/14/15967788/democracy-shackles-james-buchanan-intellectual-history-maclean">
    <title>Even the intellectual left is drawn to conspiracy theories about the right. Resist them. - Vox</title>
    <dc:date>2017-07-19T22:22:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/7/14/15967788/democracy-shackles-james-buchanan-intellectual-history-maclean</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>conspiracy_theories progressive_forces kith_and_kin farrell.henry lives_of_the_scholars running_dogs_of_reaction vast_right-wing_conspiracy</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2017/5/1/allen-report-frontline-speech/#.WQfMUGa29jo.twitter">
    <title>A Report From the Frontlines of the Free Speech Wars | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson</title>
    <dc:date>2017-05-02T18:53:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2017/5/1/allen-report-frontline-speech/#.WQfMUGa29jo.twitter</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>allen.danielle_s. vast_right-wing_conspiracy running_dogs_of_reaction academia academic_freedom</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://theintercept.com/2017/04/28/how-a-professional-climate-change-denier-discovered-the-lies-and-decided-to-fight-for-science/">
    <title>How a Professional Climate Change Denier Discovered the Lies and Decided to Fight for Science</title>
    <dc:date>2017-05-01T23:57:23+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://theintercept.com/2017/04/28/how-a-professional-climate-change-denier-discovered-the-lies-and-decided-to-fight-for-science/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>climate_change vast_right-wing_conspiracy deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process natural_history_of_truthiness</dc:subject>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/3/22/14762030/donald-trump-tribal-epistemology">
    <title>Donald Trump and the rise of tribal epistemology - Vox</title>
    <dc:date>2017-03-28T15:21:05+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/3/22/14762030/donald-trump-tribal-epistemology</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>natural_history_of_truthiness our_decrepit_institutions why_oh_why_cant_we_have_a_better_press_corps us_politics vast_right-wing_conspiracy to_read via:absfac</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:our_decrepit_institutions"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:why_oh_why_cant_we_have_a_better_press_corps"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:us_politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:vast_right-wing_conspiracy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:to_read"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:via:absfac"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/pizzagate-from-rumor-to-hashtag-to-gunfire-in-dc/2016/12/06/4c7def50-bbd4-11e6-94ac-3d324840106c_story.html?hpid=hp_local-news_comet-reconstruct-852pm%253Ahomepage%252Fstory">
    <title>Pizzagate: From rumor, to hashtag, to gunfire in D.C. - The Washington Post</title>
    <dc:date>2017-03-25T17:40:05+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/pizzagate-from-rumor-to-hashtag-to-gunfire-in-dc/2016/12/06/4c7def50-bbd4-11e6-94ac-3d324840106c_story.html?hpid=hp_local-news_comet-reconstruct-852pm%253Ahomepage%252Fstory</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>utter_stupidity psychoceramica vast_right-wing_conspiracy us_politics natural_history_of_truthiness networked_life social_media social_life_of_the_mind re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:9ae36dbb5cf0/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:vast_right-wing_conspiracy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:us_politics"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://edgeofthewest.wordpress.com/2008/01/28/vast-right-wing-conspiracy-with-picture/">
    <title>Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy (with picture). | The Edge of the American West</title>
    <dc:date>2016-08-29T15:01:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://edgeofthewest.wordpress.com/2008/01/28/vast-right-wing-conspiracy-with-picture/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>network_visualization vast_right-wing_conspiracy us_politics brandeis.louis american_history to_teach:baby-nets rauchway.eric</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:us_politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:brandeis.louis"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://medium.com/welcome-to-the-scream-room/im-with-the-banned-8d1b6e0b2932#.37yv4052j">
    <title>I’m With The Banned — Welcome to the Scream Room — Medium</title>
    <dc:date>2016-07-29T17:47:58+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://medium.com/welcome-to-the-scream-room/im-with-the-banned-8d1b6e0b2932#.37yv4052j</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>us_politics as_others_see_us vast_right-wing_conspiracy nerdworld</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:acd8cd0c1da9/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:vast_right-wing_conspiracy"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/jane-mayer-dark-money-review-koch-brothers-gop">
    <title>What Jane Mayer's Dark Money Misses About Today's Radical Right</title>
    <dc:date>2016-03-18T14:49:31+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/jane-mayer-dark-money-review-koch-brothers-gop</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>us_politics book_reviews running_dogs_of_reaction vast_right-wing_conspiracy skocpol.theda political_networks</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:vast_right-wing_conspiracy"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.scholarsstrategynetwork.org/sites/default/files/the_koch_effect_for_spsa_w_apps_skocpol_and_hertel-fernandez-corrected_1-4-16_1.pdf">
    <title>The Koch Effect: The Impact of a Cadre-Led Network on American Politics</title>
    <dc:date>2016-02-10T15:41:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.scholarsstrategynetwork.org/sites/default/files/the_koch_effect_for_spsa_w_apps_skocpol_and_hertel-fernandez-corrected_1-4-16_1.pdf</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Presidential election years attract attention to the rhetoric, personalities, and agendas of contending White House aspirants, but these headlines do not reflect the ongoing political shifts that will confront whoever moves into the White House in 2017. Earthquakes and erosions have remade the U.S. political terrain, reconfiguring the ground on which politicians and social groups must maneuver, and it is important to make sure that narrow and short-term analyses do not blind us to this shifting terrain. In this paper, we draw from research on changes since 2000 in the organizational universes surrounding the Republican and Democratic parties to highlight a major emergent force in U.S. politics: the recently expanded “Koch network” that coordinates big money funders, idea producers, issue advocates, and innovative constituency-building efforts in an ongoing effort to pull the Republican Party and agendas of U.S. politics sharply to the right. We review the major components and evolution of the Koch network and explore how it has reshaped American politics and policy agendas, focusing especially on implications for right-tilted partisan polarization and rising economic inequality."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB to_read political_science us_politics inequality political_networks vast_right-wing_conspiracy skocpol.theda class_struggles_in_america</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/N/bo19197692">
    <title>Nut Country: Right-Wing Dallas and the Birth of the Southern Strategy, Miller</title>
    <dc:date>2015-10-03T02:45:17+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/N/bo19197692</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["On the morning of November 22, 1963, President Kennedy told Jackie as they started for Dallas, “We’re heading into nut country today.” That day’s events ultimately obscured and revealed just how right he was: Oswald was a lone gunman, but the city that surrounded him was full of people who hated Kennedy and everything he stood for, led by a powerful group of ultraconservatives who would eventually remake the Republican party in their own image.
"In Nut Country, Edward H. Miller tells the story of that transformation, showing how a group of influential far-right businessmen, religious leaders, and political operatives developed a potent mix of hardline anticommunism, biblical literalism, and racism to generate a violent populism—and widespread power. Though those figures were seen as extreme in Texas and elsewhere, mainstream Republicans nonetheless found themselves forced to make alliances, or tack to the right on topics like segregation. As racial resentment came to fuel the national Republican party’s divisive but effective “Southern Strategy,” the power of the extreme conservatives rooted in Texas only grew.
"Drawing direct lines from Dallas to DC, Miller's captivating history offers a fresh understanding of the rise of the new Republican Party and the apocalyptic language, conspiracy theories, and ideological rigidity that remain potent features of our politics today."

--- This hardly sounds _populist_.  (Ressentiment on stilts, yes; populist, no.)]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://prospect.org/article/no-cost-extremism">
    <title>No Cost for Extremism</title>
    <dc:date>2015-04-26T18:36:44+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://prospect.org/article/no-cost-extremism</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>us_politics running_dogs_of_reaction vast_right-wing_conspiracy pierson.paul hacker.jacob have_read our_decrepit_institutions</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:def9b3e1abad/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://pando.com/2014/07/24/as-reasons-editor-defends-its-racist-history-heres-a-copy-of-its-holocaust-denial-special-issue/">
    <title>As Reason’s editor defends its racist history, here’s a copy of its holocaust denial “special issue” | PandoDaily</title>
    <dc:date>2014-07-26T03:33:23+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://pando.com/2014/07/24/as-reasons-editor-defends-its-racist-history-heres-a-copy-of-its-holocaust-denial-special-issue/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>libertarianism running_dogs_of_reaction utter_stupidity fascism vast_right-wing_conspiracy via:henry_farrell</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:f136ed729cc1/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:utter_stupidity"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2014/01/30/3134851/conservatives-food4patriots/">
    <title>The Inside Story Of The Charlatan Who Duped The Nation's Top Conservatives | ThinkProgress</title>
    <dc:date>2014-04-02T22:52:18+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2014/01/30/3134851/conservatives-food4patriots/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The 3x mark-up on packaged foods as a route to self-sufficiency is an especially nice touch.]]></description>
<dc:subject>fraud running_dogs_of_reaction vast_right-wing_conspiracy psychoceramica marketing economics us_politics</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/05/24/2059311/jason-richwine-responds-on-race-iq-and-his-dissertation/">
    <title>Jason Richwine Responds On Race, IQ, And His Dissertation | ThinkProgress</title>
    <dc:date>2013-05-26T14:42:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/05/24/2059311/jason-richwine-responds-on-race-iq-and-his-dissertation/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[See also previous bookmark.]]></description>
<dc:subject>racist_idiocy iq academia vast_right-wing_conspiracy</dc:subject>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:de1929ad8413/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:academia"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:vast_right-wing_conspiracy"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/05/22/2044781/jason-richwine-harvard-dissertation-race-iq-hispanic/?mobile=nc">
    <title>The Inside Story Of The Harvard Dissertation That Became Too Racist For Heritage | ThinkProgress</title>
    <dc:date>2013-05-26T14:41:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/05/22/2044781/jason-richwine-harvard-dissertation-race-iq-hispanic/?mobile=nc</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[See also next bookmark.]]></description>
<dc:subject>racist_idiocy iq academia vast_right-wing_conspiracy</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:364ccf94ec28/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:academia"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-maker-of-turbotax-fought-free-simple-tax-filing">
    <title>How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing - ProPublica</title>
    <dc:date>2013-03-27T16:34:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-maker-of-turbotax-fought-free-simple-tax-filing</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>taxes public_policy lobbying intuit corruption us_politics vast_right-wing_conspiracy via:whimsley</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:de13bb2344ec/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:public_policy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:lobbying"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:intuit"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:corruption"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:us_politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:vast_right-wing_conspiracy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:via:whimsley"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.1726">
    <title>[1302.1726] Uncovering the Wider Structure of Extreme Right Communities Spanning Popular Online Networks</title>
    <dc:date>2013-03-06T15:21:50+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.1726</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Recent years have seen increased interest in the online presence of extreme right groups. Although originally composed of dedicated websites, the online extreme right milieu now spans multiple networks, including popular social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. Ideally therefore, any contemporary analysis of online extreme right activity requires the consideration of multiple data sources, rather than being restricted to a single platform. We investigate the potential for Twitter to act as a gateway to communities within the wider online network of the extreme right, given its facility for the dissemination of content. A strategy for representing heterogeneous network data with a single homogeneous network for the purpose of community detection is presented, where these inherently dynamic communities are tracked over time. We use this strategy to discover and analyze persistent English and German language extreme right communities."]]></description>
<dc:subject>social_networks social_media network_data_analysis vast_right-wing_conspiracy community_discovery in_NB</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:566fbd27c173/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:network_data_analysis"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:vast_right-wing_conspiracy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:community_discovery"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:in_NB"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.thebaffler.com/past/the_long_con/">
    <title>The Long Con: Mail-order conservatism | Rick Perlstein | The Baffler</title>
    <dc:date>2012-11-22T00:05:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.thebaffler.com/past/the_long_con/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["it’s not really useful, or possible, to specify a break point where the money game ends and the ideological one begins. They are two facets of the same coin—where the con selling 23-cent miracle cures for heart disease inches inexorably into the one selling miniscule marginal tax rates as the miracle cure for the nation itself. The proof is in the pitches—the come-ons in which the ideological and the transactional share the exact same vocabulary, moral claims, and cast of heroes and villains."

--- A really outstanding piece of writing.]]></description>
<dc:subject>us_politics running_dogs_of_reaction vast_right-wing_conspiracy fraud conservatism con-games perlstein.rick moral_depravity evisceration multi-level_marketing</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:f75432eeb449/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:multi-level_marketing"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://chronicle.com/blognetwork/edgeofthewest/2008/01/28/vast-right-wing-conspiracy-with-picture/">
    <title>Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy (with picture). - The Edge of the American West - The Chronicle of Higher Education</title>
    <dc:date>2012-11-06T14:08:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://chronicle.com/blognetwork/edgeofthewest/2008/01/28/vast-right-wing-conspiracy-with-picture/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The oldest graph of a social network (bipartite!) I have ever encountered.  Reading this lo these nearly 5 years ago led me to track down Mason's biography of Brandeis, and there it is.]]></description>
<dc:subject>brandeis.louis american_history vast_right-wing_conspiracy visual_display_of_quantitative_information network_data_analysis social_networks to_teach:complexity-and-inference rauchway.eric network_visualization to_teach:baby-nets</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:496fcd7bf609/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/26/opinion/krugman-lobbyists-guns-and-money.html">
    <title>Lobbyists, Guns and Money - NYTimes.com</title>
    <dc:date>2012-03-26T14:51:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/26/opinion/krugman-lobbyists-guns-and-money.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It's as though they look at public choice theory and see a blueprint not a critique.]]></description>
<dc:subject>us_politics vast_right-wing_conspiracy running_dogs_of_reaction class_struggles_in_america political_economy krugman.paul</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:6532d30c51a3/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:running_dogs_of_reaction"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:class_struggles_in_america"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://us-intellectual-history.blogspot.com/2012/03/historicizing-conservative-think-tank.html">
    <title>U.S. Intellectual History: Historicizing the Conservative Think Tank by Jason Stahl</title>
    <dc:date>2012-03-13T14:16:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://us-intellectual-history.blogspot.com/2012/03/historicizing-conservative-think-tank.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["This history is truly what makes the lamentations of present-day conservatives for a conservative think tank (or think tanks in general) dedicated to rigorous policy development so hard to accept. In the sixties and seventies conservatives in places like AEI, the Heritage Foundation, and the Cato Institute did more than anyone else to discredit the idea of policy making as a social-scientific endeavor. Instead, policy debates became primarily concerned with political identities and political combat and provided the foundation for the elite media discourse within which Americans live today, where “balancing” public policy debates between “two sides” in a “marketplace of ideas” effectively takes precedence over policy content and, dare I say, truth.
"Likewise, this history makes the lamentations of Julian Sanchez at Cato equally hard to have sympathy for. As the brief history I’ve outlined here suggests, the political subjectivities and biases of the wealthy funders of conservative think tanks were integral to the success of these institutions. Obviously, such monies were used to develop the institutional infrastructure, but even more importantly their biases and subjectivities were used as a way to change and enter public policy debates. So, it is hard to feel sorry for those at Cato who are now lamenting what Koch may or may not do to the institution. When the history of the institution is wrapped up in a project which uses the biases of wealth funders to gain power and change the way people discuss politics and public policy, you can hardly be angry when those funders want to change the political identity that you’re promoting.
"And this, ultimately, is what the debate at Cato is about. Since it has been a long time since the technocratic ideal held (if it ever truly did—that is a discussion for another post) this is not a debate between one side that wants an institution dedicated to Republican Party political combat (Koch) and one side that wants rigorous truth-seeking and a development of policies that “work” (people like Sanchez at Cato). No, it is instead the battle that conservatives (in think tanks and elsewhere) have been wanting for the last four decades—a battle of identities in a political marketplace. Who will win: the millionaire who is seeking to “re-brand his product” or the old-school libertarian brand? According to the narrative conservatives have been offering us, only “the market” can decide."]]></description>
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<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:4127fa7ceed3/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/2011/09/the_curse_of_tina.html">
    <title>BBC - Adam Curtis Blog: THE CURSE OF TINA</title>
    <dc:date>2011-11-12T20:24:38+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/2011/09/the_curse_of_tina.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>neo-liberalism vast_right-wing_conspiracy deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process hayek.f.a._von gives_economists_a_bad_name curtis.adam think_tanks</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:c03f68e9a8ca/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.thenation.com/article/164073/how-austerity-class-rules-washington?page=full">
    <title>How the Austerity Class Rules Washington | The Nation</title>
    <dc:date>2011-10-21T18:44:34+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.thenation.com/article/164073/how-austerity-class-rules-washington?page=full</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>us_politics political_economy running_dogs_of_reaction vast_right-wing_conspiracy berman.ari via:krugman</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:d822d2d262ab/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:vast_right-wing_conspiracy"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://lareviewofbooks.org/post/7114122761/magicland">
    <title>LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS | Magicland</title>
    <dc:date>2011-08-11T19:07:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://lareviewofbooks.org/post/7114122761/magicland</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>book_reviews utter_stupidity evisceration conspiracy_theories vast_right-wing_conspiracy running_dogs_of_reaction us_politics rhetorical_self-fashioning to:blog beck.glenn</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:b8b391d7f299/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.georgescialabba.net/mtgs/2011/06/the-impresario.html">
    <title>The Impresario - GeorgeScialabba.Net</title>
    <dc:date>2011-05-23T21:51:11+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.georgescialabba.net/mtgs/2011/06/the-impresario.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>book_reviews kristol.irving scialabba.george evisceration running_dogs_of_reaction vast_right-wing_conspiracy neo-conservatism</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://rortybomb.wordpress.com/2011/03/11/what-borat-and-the-serviceprofessional-economy-can-teach-us-about-the-latest-round-of-right-wing-taping-faux-scandals/">
    <title>What Borat and the Service/Professional Economy Can Teach Us About The Latest Round of Right-Wing Taping Faux-Scandals. « Rortybomb</title>
    <dc:date>2011-03-11T23:08:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://rortybomb.wordpress.com/2011/03/11/what-borat-and-the-serviceprofessional-economy-can-teach-us-about-the-latest-round-of-right-wing-taping-faux-scandals/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["the Borat humor is taking people whose jobs are to behave a certain way under a familiar, professionalized script and then start acting like a weirdo. ... They all try to keep to their scripts while the person opposite of them acts like a buffoon,,,, instead of going “stop acting like a buffoon.” ... These right-wing videos take this and amplify a particularly interesting part of the service/professionalized economy. When so much of our economy is driven by professionals there is a lot of work done in making sure that there are layers of people between the consumer and the professional. ... You don’t want the expensive brain surgeon making sure you’ve filled out your address and contact information correctly or taking your temperature – that’s why there’s a secretary and a nurse in-between these steps at the hospital.What the right-wing videos do ... is present the front-line staff as the actual decision making professionals. ..."
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<item rdf:about="http://rortybomb.wordpress.com/2011/01/31/frum-reads-the-fcic-or-the-ownership-society-as-the-bridge-to-a-permanent-republican-majority/">
    <title>Frum reads the FCIC, or: The Ownership Society as the Bridge to a Permanent Republican Majority. « Rortybomb</title>
    <dc:date>2011-02-01T05:19:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://rortybomb.wordpress.com/2011/01/31/frum-reads-the-fcic-or-the-ownership-society-as-the-bridge-to-a-permanent-republican-majority/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The ownership society, brought to you by a promiscuous causal interpretation of logistic regression coefficients.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>us_politics running_dogs_of_reaction vast_right-wing_conspiracy ownership_society political_economy rortybomb</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:092eac11a358/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/10/18/101018fa_fact_wilentz?currentPage=all">
    <title>Glenn Beck, the Tea Party, and the Republicans : The New Yorker</title>
    <dc:date>2010-10-14T03:52:18+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/10/18/101018fa_fact_wilentz?currentPage=all</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>vast_right-wing_conspiracy running_dogs_of_reaction john_birch_society utter_stupidity american_history us_politics beck.glenn wilentz.sean</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:bdaa01aa53c0/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.powells.com/biblio/1-9781596916104-0">
    <title>Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M Conway - Powell's Books</title>
    <dc:date>2010-06-04T16:17:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.powells.com/biblio/1-9781596916104-0</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process bad_science history_of_science us_politics natural_history_of_truthiness vast_right-wing_conspiracy books:owned books:recommended</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:5f8c476ec6a9/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2010/04/stephen-spuriell-on-student-loans.php">
    <title>Matthew Yglesias » Stephen Spuriell on Student Loans</title>
    <dc:date>2010-04-30T18:53:55+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2010/04/stephen-spuriell-on-student-loans.php</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["One major analytic error I think liberals tend to make is vastly overstating the level of dishonesty among conservative pundits, analysts, advocates, etc. The crux of the matter is that the overwhelming majority of smart people with conservative political opinions are working as businessmen. If they think about public policy at all, they’re thinking about how to cheat on their taxes or clever knew ways to bilk the public, and certainly not talking about it. So you’re left with a kind of denuded population in terms of brainpower. But at the same time, smart conservative businessmen have financed a staggering array of conservative institutions creating a tremendous number of jobs for conservative pundits and so forth despite the shallow talent pool. The result is a lot of people saying dumb things that they genuinely believe."
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<item rdf:about="http://www.juliansanchez.com/2010/04/22/a-coda-on-closure/">
    <title>A Coda on Closure</title>
    <dc:date>2010-04-23T12:08:39+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.juliansanchez.com/2010/04/22/a-coda-on-closure/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Still, just as a brief refresher, recall that over the past two years, the movement’s flagship publications and most prominent pundits have found it urgent to discuss: Bill Ayers’ potential authorship of Obama’s memoir, the looming threat of death panels, the president’s crypto-Islamic background and allegiances, his attempt to create a “private army” via the health care bill, his desire to see America come to ruin, the imagined racism of Sonia Sotomayor…"
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<dc:subject>utter_stupidity us_politics funny:laughing_instead_of_screaming vast_right-wing_conspiracy running_dogs_of_reaction natural_history_of_truthiness social_life_of_the_mind</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:5dd6478c6024/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/09/opinion/09krugman.html">
    <title>Op-Ed Columnist - Paranoia Strikes Deep - NYTimes.com</title>
    <dc:date>2009-11-09T18:19:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/09/opinion/09krugman.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>krugman.paul running_dogs_of_reaction vast_right-wing_conspiracy us_politics whats_gone_wrong_with_america pure_products_of_america</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:82cf90268e7d/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://sanseverything.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/reckless-falsehoods.pdf">
    <title>Reckless Falsehoods</title>
    <dc:date>2009-10-08T17:53:25+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://sanseverything.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/reckless-falsehoods.pdf</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>vast_right-wing_conspiracy rhetoric_of_reaction even_the_liberal_new_republic rhetoric natural_history_of_truthiness deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process evisceration via:jbdelong mccaughney.elizabeth glass.stephen sullivan.andrew lamey.a.m.</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:b45226a1e136/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/08/30/royalty/index.html">
    <title>It's time to embrace American royalty - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com</title>
    <dc:date>2009-08-31T18:05:11+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/08/30/royalty/index.html</link>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/14/AR2009081401495_pf.html">
    <title>Rick Perlstein, &quot;In America, Crazy Is a Preexisting Condition&quot;</title>
    <dc:date>2009-08-15T15:32:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/14/AR2009081401495_pf.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[How can this appear in the Washington Post?  (But I'm glad it did.)
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<dc:subject>something_about_america pure_products_of_america perlstein.rick running_dogs_of_reaction vast_right-wing_conspiracy us_politics why_oh_why_cant_we_have_a_better_press_corps</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:2a34c281166e/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://balkin.blogspot.com/2009/05/david-frum-american-enterprise.html">
    <title>Balkinization: David Frum (American Enterprise Institute) on Judge Sonia Sotomayor: Subprime Reporting, continued.</title>
    <dc:date>2009-06-03T15:13:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://balkin.blogspot.com/2009/05/david-frum-american-enterprise.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In which David Frum is called on a public falsehood, admits that he's lying, and proclaims his intention to continue to keep on repeating the lie.
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<dc:subject>vast_right-wing_conspiracy us_politics law deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process why_oh_why_cant_we_have_a_better_press_corps frum.david sotomayor.sonia harcourt.bernard_e.</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:04367303438e/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://uchicagolaw.typepad.com/faculty/2009/05/david-frum-american-enterprise-institute-on-judge-sonia-sotomayor-subprime-reporting.html">
    <title>The University of Chicago Law School Faculty Blog: David Frum (American Enterprise Institute) on Judge Sonia Sotomayor: Subprime Reporting</title>
    <dc:date>2009-06-03T15:09:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://uchicagolaw.typepad.com/faculty/2009/05/david-frum-american-enterprise-institute-on-judge-sonia-sotomayor-subprime-reporting.html</link>
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<item rdf:about="http://lefarkins.blogspot.com/2009/05/worst-american-birthdays-vol-49.html">
    <title>Lawyers, Guns and Money: Worst American Birthdays, vol. 49</title>
    <dc:date>2009-05-16T23:19:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://lefarkins.blogspot.com/2009/05/worst-american-birthdays-vol-49.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Roger Eugene Ailes
]]></description>
<dc:subject>why_oh_why_cant_we_have_a_better_press_corps decline_of_american_character running_dogs_of_reaction vast_right-wing_conspiracy bad_journalism natural_history_of_truthiness us_politics ailes.roger</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://crookedtimber.org/2009/05/01/political-entrepreneurs-and-lunatics-with-money/">
    <title>Political Entrepreneurs and Lunatics with Money — Crooked Timber</title>
    <dc:date>2009-05-01T23:14:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://crookedtimber.org/2009/05/01/political-entrepreneurs-and-lunatics-with-money/</link>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat/430261">
    <title>GOP Know-Nothings Fought Pandemic Preparedness</title>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.scienceprogress.org/2009/02/the-george-will-scandal/">
    <title>The George Will Scandal</title>
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    <link>http://www.scienceprogress.org/2009/02/the-george-will-scandal/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>why_oh_why_cant_we_have_a_better_press_corps bad_science_journalism newspapers climate_change vast_right-wing_conspiracy internet blogging will.george mooney.chris</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2009/02/wired.php">
    <title>Talking Points Memo | Wired</title>
    <dc:date>2009-02-25T19:26:17+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2009/02/wired.php</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In which Josh Marshall encounters ideological hegemony.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>ideology vast_right-wing_conspiracy whats_gone_wrong_with_america marshall.joshua_michael</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2009/02/the-washington-posts-multilayer-editing-process.html">
    <title>Obsidian Wings: The Washington Post's &quot;Multi-Layer Editing Process&quot;</title>
    <dc:date>2009-02-20T18:05:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2009/02/the-washington-posts-multilayer-editing-process.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>evisceration utter_stupidity hilzoy climate_change natural_history_of_truthiness why_oh_why_cant_we_have_a_better_press_corps will.george vast_right-wing_conspiracy</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/MOREVE.html">
    <title>To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise (Moreton)</title>
    <dc:date>2009-02-05T03:08:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/MOREVE.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["While industrial America was built by and for the urban North, rural Southerners comprised much of the labor, management, and consumers in the postwar service sector that raised the Sun Belt to national influence. These newcomers to the economic stage put down the plough to take up the bar-code scanner without ever passing through the assembly line. Industrial culture had been urban, modernist, sometimes radical, often Catholic and Jewish, and self-consciously international. Post-industrial culture, in contrast, spoke of Jesus with a drawl and of unions with a sneer, sang about Momma and the flag, and preached salvation in this world and the next."
]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/MIRROA.html">
    <title>The Road from Mont Pelerin: The Making of the Neoliberal Thought Collective</title>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.lrb.co.uk/v30/n19/shtz01_.html">
    <title>LRB · Adam Shatz: Short Cuts</title>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I got _two_ copies.
]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/10/AR2008071002373.html">
    <title>Collateral Damage - washingtonpost.com</title>
    <dc:date>2008-07-19T15:46:22+00:00</dc:date>
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<item rdf:about="http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2008/07/every-time-i-tr.html">
    <title>Every Time I Try to Crawl Out, They Pull Me Back in! - Brad DeLong</title>
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    <link>http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2008/07/every-time-i-tr.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Brad, tricked into appearing with Grover Norquist, loses his temper with the entire establishment.
]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121435075603401563.html?mod=todays_columnists">
    <title>Conservatives and Their Carnival of Fraud - Thomas Frank</title>
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    <link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121435075603401563.html?mod=todays_columnists</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It's a wonder the WSJ editorial page doesn't explode from sheer cognitive dissonance.
]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://pandagon.net/index.php/site/comments/converging_right_wing_fundamentalism/">
    <title>pandagon.net: Converging right wing fundamentalism</title>
    <dc:date>2008-06-17T14:24:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://pandagon.net/index.php/site/comments/converging_right_wing_fundamentalism/</link>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2008/06/8595_three_days_in_r.html">
    <title>MotherJones Blog: The Cocktail Napkin Plan for Regime Change in Iran</title>
    <dc:date>2008-06-09T23:17:09+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2008/06/8595_three_days_in_r.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>us-iraq_war utter_stupidity the_continuing_crises iran-contra neo-conservatism vast_right-wing_conspiracy rozen.laura iran running_dogs_of_reaction ghorbanifar.manucher cambone.steve intelligence_(spying)</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:21fa0f31210b/</dc:identifier>
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    <title>McClatchy Washington Bureau | 06/05/2008 | Did Iranian agents dupe Pentagon officials?</title>
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    <title>Following the junk science money trail - How the World Works - Salon.com</title>
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    <title>John McCain's Gramm Gamble by Patricia Kilday Hart - The Texas Observer</title>
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    <title>The Problem With Conservatism Is Conservatism | The American Prospect</title>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Conservative policies couldn't have worked better for the financial supporters of the right. But for virtually everyone else, conservatism has nothing left to offer."
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    <title>Can Identity Politics Save the Right? | The American Prospect</title>
    <dc:date>2008-05-31T01:30:44+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=can_identity_politics_save_the_right</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Mark Schmitt suggests that the GOP try the Know-Nothing/Nativist strategy...
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    <title>Blog: Nukes &amp; Spooks: Memo to Scott McClellan: Here's what happened</title>
    <dc:date>2008-05-31T01:21:44+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://washingtonbureau.typepad.com/nationalsecurity/2008/05/what-happened.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The McClatchy (formerly Knight-Ridder) news service on actually being journalists
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    <title>Are &quot;ideas&quot; the cure to what ails conservatism?</title>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Nice, but doesn't get into why people think ideas (in this sense) matter, if they don't, or why they spend some effort on creating and disseminating them.
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    <title>Matthew Yglesias: Matt Gets Simplistic and Shrill</title>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["the problem with the conservative movement is that it's fundamentally malign" (my romans)
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