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    <title>The End of Reading Is Here - The Atlantic</title>
    <dc:date>2026-07-09T05:52:51+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The beneficiaries of existing social and economic hierarchies will always fight to maintain them against egalitarian movements for change.

Introducing our Spring 2020 special section, “Know Your Enemy.”"

...

"In a widely read New Republic article published in the first days of Barack Obama’s presidency, Sam Tanenhaus, a journalist and biographer of Whittaker Chambers and William F. Buckley, Jr., declared that “Conservatism Is Dead.”

He argued that advocates of the postwar conservative orthodoxy—a “fusion” of libertarian economics, anti-communism, and Christian traditionalism—could provide no satisfactory answers for Americans struggling with precarious employment and the collapse of the housing bubble. For Tanenhaus, it was Obama who represented the politics of Burkean compromise best suited to a world in crisis and flux. Out of touch with its times, conservatism, he predicted, would be relegated to the wilderness, shadow-boxing with twentieth-century ghosts until tiring itself out and expiring.

Tanenhaus was wrong. He failed to anticipate the potent ideological adrenaline that the Obama presidency would provide to the movements and institutions of the right, which, despite their high-minded rhetoric, had always been propelled as much by disdain for (and fear of) the lower orders as by philosophical principle. Beneath a familiar veneer of constitutional originalism, the Tea Party catalyzed an amorphous fear of the first black president—and his plans to “take over” American medicine on behalf of undeserving racial others—into a genuine movement. It revitalized the Republican Party, infusing it with young legislative talent and cash from hardcore libertarian donors like the Koch Brothers. Conservatives dominated state legislative elections in the Obama years, enabling a spree of gerrymandering and structural reforms (like voter disenfranchisement and union busting) to ensure that, despite a dwindling white majority, conservatism would have a triumphant second life in American politics.

Whether you see Trump’s victory in 2016 as the culmination of decades of racial backlash, prefigured by the counter-revolutionary rage of the Obama years, or a radical break with the movement conservatism that preceded it depends on how you view the intellectual history of conservatism: through the rosy spectacles worn by the editors of National Review and the American Enterprise Institute, or as the product of a class that recognizes its duty to forget the violence of its foundation.

The thorough marginalization of those voices on the right who have refused to embrace Trump—and see him as out of step with conservative tradition—is indicative of the current orientation of the movement. Most of the writers who contributed to National Review’s February 2016 “Never Trump” issue have become defenders of the president. Those like William Kristol, Jonah Goldberg, Charlie Sykes, and Jennifer Rubin who remain opposed are relegated to the sidelines of conservatism, viewed with suspicion by their former comrades. They wield little if any influence over the direction of the GOP and are resigned to begging the Democrats to pick a sufficiently moderate nominee for them to support in 2020.

The contributors to this section seek instead to recover the connections between conservative history and Trump, along with the seemingly novel formations emerging on the right. In his essay, Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins offers an illuminating reappraisal of the “evangelical question”—how did a religious community self-defined by puritanical virtue embrace a figure, in Trump, of pure vice and evident godlessness?—by unearthing the white nationalism, Christian chauvinism, and American exceptionalism endemic to evangelicalism from its founding. Steinmetz-Jenkins confounds the recent effort by evangelical leaders to quarantine their doctrinal beliefs from the political adventurism of the rank-and-file; religious doctrine and “secular” politics are entangled, mutually constituting the political theology of evangelicalism.

This meld of faith and politics is evident in our forum of formerly conservative writers explaining why they left the right. Christian fundamentalisms of various flavors play a role in the upbringing and early politics of Matthew Sitman (co-editor of this section), Sarah Jones, Maximillian Alvarez, and Steinmetz-Jenkins. All found themselves mostly bypassing centrist liberalism as they moved from left to right, searching for a politics that repudiated the Iraq War and that took seriously the experience of economic precarity.

Other conservative intellectuals have sought to revive conservatism in order to appeal to the working class. In March 2019, a manifesto entitled “Against the Dead Consensus” was published by First Things, a redoubt of the Christian right that once provided the intellectual sustenance of George W. Bush’s evangelical extremism. While stopping short of endorsing the president himself, the authors of the manifesto wrote that “the Trump phenomenon has opened up space in which to pose these questions anew,” asserting that “any attempt to revive the failed conservative consensus that preceded Trump would be misguided and harmful to the right.” In its place, they support a muscular faith-based politics, support for an idealized American worker, and anti-immigrant nationalism. They reject a pernicious individualism that they associate with the market fundamentalism of the right, the left’s embrace of transgender and abortion rights, and the “pornographization of daily life” in popular culture.

This post-liberal battle cry has found an unlikely champion in Harvard Law professor Adrian Vermeule, a respected and influential scholar who has become the country’s foremost advocate of “integralism”—the idea that the political priorities of the state should be subordinated to the moral aims of the Catholic Church. In a bracing essay, James Chappel finds the roots of Vermeule’s theocratic illiberalism, counterintuitively, in the technocratic jurisprudence he has elaborated elsewhere with the moderately liberal Cass Sunstein. If the administrative state can be used to “nudge” (in Sunstein’s phrase) individuals toward optimal economic and public health outcomes, why couldn’t agencies staffed by integralists “nudge” the public toward appropriate moral behavior?

Ross Douthat is known for translating these internecine conservative debates into terms that liberal New York Times readers can understand. In an interview with Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell, we press Douthat to explain how his own conservatism fits within the currents of post-liberalism, populism, and nationalism roiling the right, and whether a Trumpism without Trump is possible. Douthat—long an advocate of pairing economic populism with social conservatism—offers perhaps too sanguine an account of how a post-fusionist GOP might rebuild itself after Trump, glossing over some real disagreements about the best way to imagine the national community. Our dialogue also draws out some of the overlap between left and right critiques of individualism, posing the question of whether a social democratic president like Bernie Sanders might offer a different answer to the crisis of liberalism than Trump has.

Kirsten Weld concludes the section by widening our historical and geographic aperture to examine the ascendant Latin American right and its origins in the continent’s postcolonial histories. Her essay reminds us to look well beyond the twentieth century for answers to our contemporary predicaments. The racial, religious, and gendered hierarchies that conservatives across the globe seek to reconstitute and fortify are, ultimately, the inheritance of empire. And the task for the international left, as ever, is to eradicate the vestiges of colonialism and slavery from the structures of our societies.

Conservatism is hardly dead, and it may never die. The beneficiaries of existing social and economic hierarchies will always fight to maintain them against egalitarian movements for change. So too will the conservative longing for a lost or threatened sense of security, certainty, and rootedness serve as a powerful framework for opposing the imaginative promises of the egalitarian left.

But the certainty of resistance only raises our obligation to fight—and to know our enemy."]]></description>
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    <title>Mapping the ADL’s Origins in Settler-Colonial Liberalism, State Power, &amp; Civil Rights as Cover... - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2026-07-04T06:17:35+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In this episode we are joined by Emmaia Gelman, author of The Anti-Defamation League and the Racial State, a critical history of the ADL as a Cold War neoconservative institution. Gelman excavates the Anti-Defamation League's origins as a white, settler colonial institution founded by German-Jewish elites—not to combat antisemitism broadly, but to manage class respectability and suppress Eastern European Jewish immigrant socialists whom they viewed as a racial and social threat. 

 Gelman looks back at how early Jewish settlers had built fortunes through participation in 19th-century US territorial expansion, Indigenous dispossession, and slavery's economic system, understanding themselves as white Europeans racially distinct from the "vermin" arriving from the Pale of Settlement. The ADL and its predecessor, the American Jewish Committee (founded 1906), operated as Progressive Era eugenicist charities designed to "correct and fix" rather than support self-determination, preemptively capturing Jewish political identity to prevent autonomous radical organizing.

 Gelman traces how the ADL evolved from an instrument of McCarthyite purges—coordinating mass firings of Jewish leftists in 1951, offering its services to McCarthy committee members, and abandoning Julius and Ethel Rosenberg to execution while denying antisemitism played any role in their prosecution (the judge who sentenced them sat on the ADL's Civil Rights Committee)—into a key architect of Cold War anti-communism and neoconservative "democracy promotion." The organization attacked Arab League representatives speaking about Zionist violence in Palestine as early as 1946, treating Palestinian and Arab organizing as "foreign insurgency" while framing Jewish fundraising for Israeli settlement as natural civic participation. After Israel's 1967 military victory, the ADL strategically re-racialized Jews as non-white within the framework of race liberalism, allowing it to cast Israeli militarism as defensive racial liberation and Arab calls for refugee return as antisemitic rather than anti-colonial. This racial pivot occurred precisely as European Jews had achieved economic whiteness through the GI Bill, suburbanization, and the collapse of university quotas—benefits systematically denied to Black populations through redlining.

 Emmaia Gelman is the author of The Anti-Defamation League and the Racial State, a critical history of the Anti-Defamation League as a Cold War neoconservative institution (UC Press, 2026) and co-editor of The Anti-Defamation League: A Critical Reader (Pluto Press, 2026). She co-hosts the podcast Unpacking Zionism. Emmaia is co-chair of the American Studies Association Caucus on Academic and Community Activism, and a longtime activist in New York City.

 She is the founding director of the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism, which examines the political and ideological work of Zionist institutions in Palestine and transnational contexts. She researches the history of ideas about race, queerness, safety, and rights, and their production as levers in surveillance, “anti-terror”, and war. Her teaching spans academic and community spaces."

[also here:
https://millennialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/mapping-the-adls-origins-in-settler-colonial-liberalism-state-power-civil-rights-as-cover-with-emmaia-gelman 

See also:

The Anti-Defamation League and the Racial State, by Emmaia Gelman (2026)
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/the-anti-defamation-league-and-the-racial-state/hardcover 

Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism
https://criticalzionismstudies.org/ ]]]></description>
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...

"It might be argued that Silicon Valley, like the army, the church, and the American Bar Association, is free to identify, recruit, and train new members as they please. What kind of a university is this, then? A metaphor comes to mind. Stanford is the harbinger of the university-as-giant-app, a networked series of buildings, professors, classrooms, donors, faculty, trustees, and back-office staff designed to turn out a small but predictable number of next-generation tech titans. Like other apps, it feels like a highly engineered tool geared to customer convenience, though only a carefully selected group of human beings is allowed to use the program—and the real operator is Silicon Valley itself, whose screen taps summon the Stanford within Stanford, fresh from the warehouse."]]></description>
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    <title>How to use NO as a complete sentence • Buttondown</title>
    <dc:date>2026-06-06T05:08:46+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["This week’s question comes to us anonymously:

I did my job fine before AI came along. Now my workplace ‘suggests’ we use it. How do I say no?

Sigh. Fuck. Fine. OK. Buckle up.

Let’s talk about the 1990 Texas governor’s race.

In 1989, I moved from Philadelphia to Austin for graduate school. Having grown up in the middle of an East Coast city and suddenly finding myself in what was still, at the time, either a small city or a big town—depending on your world view—was… jarring. It was neither better, nor worse. It was just… different. So mostly I watched. I watched how other people behaved. I watched how other people interacted with one another. And I looked for cues on how to behave in this new place. (First parenthetical aside: In Philadelphia, when two people cross on the sidewalk you nod. The nod is an acknowledgement of safe passage. Much like clinking glasses during a toast started as proof that I had not poisoned your drink, nodding was reassurance that I was not going to turn around and stab you after we’d crossed. I was raised to nod. My first morning in Texas, I went for a walk to explore my new neighborhood and someone came walking in my direction. Just as I was preparing to nod, he bolted out “Good morning!” in a loud reassuring way not unlike Foghorn Leghorn, had Foghorn been raised a little further west. So that was new. In San Francisco, where I live now, people neither nod nor say “Good morning!” They purse their lips, as if they’re disappointed that they aren’t crossing paths with someone of a higher net worth.)

Shortly after I moved to Austin, Texas decided to elect a new governor. Mainly because the current governor, who is not important to this story, got caught with his hand in the wrong cookie jar. The Democrats decided to run Ann Richards, who I knew nothing about at the time, but certainly grew to admire. The Republicans, for their part, decided on a good-ole-boy cattle rancher from Midland named Clayton Williams. (Second parenthetical aside: At this point in history, this point being 1990, Texas had elected exactly one (not a typo) Republican governor since Reconstruction. One. So when they tell you that Texas has historically been a deep red state that is bullshit. It has recently elected a slew of Republicans, which is as much about gerrymandering as it is about any change in voter sentiment. Much like when California is described as a solid blue state and I remind people that we gave the world both Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, which my neighbors love being reminded of, even as they vote for Daniel Lurie and vote down propositions to tax billionaires fairly.) (Wait, open the parenthetical back up. As long as we’re here—I should make note that Ann Richards, Molly Ivins, and Barbara Jordan were, at one point, the strongest political trinity in the state of Texas, and I have no particular reason to name all three of them today, but I enjoy doing it, and you should read up on all three of them.)

Anyhoo… Clayton Williams was very much a Texas “good ole boy” who made lots of money on oil, cattle, telecom, and other Texas-like businesses. He liked smiling, shaking people’s hands, being on television, and telling jokes. For her part, Ann Richards also enjoyed those things, and as an added bonus enjoyed—and excelled at—civil service. The media, both state and national, had a great time with the campaign, dubbing it “Claytie vs The Lady” (cringe). This all came to a grinding halt when Clayton Williams decided to kick the ball into his own goal and pronounced—unprovoked, mind you—that rape was like the weather and that "if it’s inevitable, just relax and enjoy it.” In 1990, even in Texas, this was enough to kill a campaign. Which it did. Ann Richards went on to be a fine governor. (Fun fact: her daughter Cecile Richards went on to be the president of Planned Parenthood from 2006–2018. Sadly, we’ve lost them both.)

Now why the fuck did I just write three long paragraphs about the Texas gubernatorial campaign when I’m supposed to be writing about AI? Because the language we are using about AI adoption is very similar to how Clayton Williams described rape.

“It’s happening whether you want it or not.”

“Better get on board if you know what’s good for you.”

“If you want to keep working here, this is what it takes.”

“It’s inevitable, just relax and enjoy it.”

Am I comparing AI to rape? I am not. I am, however, comparing the language we use when discussing AI adoption to the language of rape culture. It’s the language of coercion. Language that implies a lack of choice and reminds you of the power those who are using it have over you. A lack of agency. It’s language that does not rely on consent, but instead the idea that we are bereft of choices, so we might as well get with the program. A program which is being foisted on us by—if you take a look at the group photo—men. And not just men, but men who like to cozy up to—and hand awards to—a convicted rapist. (Third parenthetical aside: in 2002, when the AI bubble was still a misfiring synapse in Marc Andreesen’s very large head (probably a result of eating a twin in utero) an AI Summit was held in the Virgin Islands. Specifically in the Virgin Island that was home to Jeffrey Epstein, which was convenient because the summit happened at his retreat. And yes, he footed the bill. The fact that Jeffrey Epstein was curious about a technology that eliminated consent should surprise no one.) These are not men with a lot of introspection. In fact, they proudly tout their lack of introspection. Which is a mark of a sociopath.

We’ve talked a lot about whether AI is “good” or “bad” and we should continue to do so. But it’s also worth having a conversation, or two, or a thousand, about how—and why— it’s being rolled out, at this particular moment in time, by this particular set of people, for whom the language of coercion appears to come naturally. And why people are fighting back against it.

Designers are notoriously disloyal, which I mean as a positive. Let me explain. When I was coming up as a designer, we used Photoshop to do all of our comps, a tool famously not made for doing comps. But it worked, if not perfectly. Every few years another tool would come around to knock Photoshop off its perch, we would try it for a few days, and inevitably sigh and go back to Photoshop. Not out of loyalty, mind you. But because whatever the other tools offered weren’t enough to offset the learning curve. Until the day Figma showed up. We tried it, and the majority of designers never looked back. Entire companies switched to Figma seemingly overnight. And here’s the important part: this didn’t happen because of some top-down mandate, but because the workers found a tool that made their job easier. It was, for the most part, a worker-driven shift. Like I said, we’re disloyal. We’re happy to adopt tools that make our lives easier.

And while there are certainly workers who’ve embraced AI tools—I’ll let them provide their own reasoning elsewhere—what I’m seeing is the opposite of a worker-driven shift. Management is driving the shift to AI. And it’s going as well as you’d expect. Let me give an example, in addition to this week’s question.

A few weeks ago I was talking to a friend who works at a fairly well-regarded company in San Francisco. They’re an engineer. They’ve been working as an engineer at this company for a few years. They enjoy what they do, they enjoy working with their team, and from what they’ve told me, they do their job well. I believe them. A few months ago they received a mandate from management to start using Claude, and everyone got their allotment of tokens. Sure, they were open to it. So they asked management for guidance.

“How do you want us using it?”

“What can it help us to do better?”

“Where are you seeing room for improvement, and how do you see Claude helping us improve in those areas?”

These are good questions. They’re not the questions of haters or boosters. They’re questions of workers open to doing their jobs better. The answers they got back from management only qualified as answers because they immediately followed a question. They were told that from now on their jobs would be measured by how much they used Claude. I’m sure lots of readers are nodding along right now because they’re either in that situation, or sitting at home in the aftermath of that situation. For reasons that had nothing to do with the workers’ efficiency, or client satisfaction, or anything that even vaguely resembled the ghost of a metric, the entire team had to change how they worked, and the tools they used, for secret reasons. Naturally, morale took a nosedive.

“It’s happening whether you want it or not.”

Earlier this week I did a Q&A with the graduating class at Glasgow School of Art. I love talking to students. But more importantly, I like listening to students. I want to know what they care about. I want to hear their concerns. I’ve been doing an annual Q&A with this particular school for a few years now. Usually their questions come in a range of topics. This year there was one topic. They were concerned about AI. And again, it wasn’t whether AI was good or whether AI was bad, but how AI was being used to decimate a workforce they were about to enter. Most of them feel like they’re graduating into a field where they’re no longer welcome. We have a new generation of people who want to do the work, they’re excited to do the work, they want to prove they can do the work.

We’re going to lose these kids.

One of the things the students mentioned is they go out into social media and see “design leaders”—people they look up to—talking about how this shit is inevitable, and how it’s coming whether you want it or not, how we’re going to get left behind if we don’t comply, etc., etc., etc. And it makes them feel hopeless. Of course it does. This field (or fields, whatever) is now describing the future in the language of coercion. Because this appears to be something that the leaders in this field are very comfortable with. Force. They look out over a decimated workforce, struggling to pay their rent and they call it abundance. (For who?!)

These fucks have decided that the future is already written, and that it is written in their favor. These sad sociopathic fucks are attempting to write a future where everything and everyone behaves in a way that benefits them. Where no one gives them lip. Where no one tells them no. Where no one defies them. Where consent has been taken off the table. Where they can get what they want, from who they want, when they want it.

And that you should just “relax and enjoy it” when they thrust their vision of a future upon you. For which I would like to remind you that very few of you had any idea who Clayton Williams was before you read this essay. Because he was a loser. And because the future remains unwritten.

TL;DR: “No” is—and has always been—a complete sentence."]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2026-06-06T00:27:25+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/a-billionaire-explains-why-american</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In his autobiography "Born to Be Wired," Warner board member and billionaire John Malone describes how he helped turn America into a society focused on greed and market power."]]></description>
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    <title>Whither the Nerd-Bully? | Ben Tarnoff | The New York Review of Books</title>
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[archived:
https://archive.is/ClkzU

via:
https://www.theverge.com/microsoft/930433/apropos-of-nothing-in-particular

"Apropos of nothing in particular...

I enjoyed reading this story about Bill Gates’ malevolent influence on the current crop of Silicon Valley megalomaniacs. If you remember his pre-Gates Foundation reputation, you will particularly appreciate it."]

"Source Code strikes a careful balance. Young Gates is curious and precocious but awkward and ill-tempered. He is the beneficiary of an affluent upbringing but possesses the intelligence to make the most of his opportunities. He gets into programming at the perfect time—just ahead of the first microcomputers that make personal computing a reality—but has the foresight and initiative to maximize this advantage.

Even the most meticulously humanized portrait may not be enough. As Das points out, Gates’s stature has suffered as a result of both the Epstein connection and his promotion of vaccines during the pandemic, which made him a villain to various Covid denialists and conspiracists. Relatedly, the position he has historically occupied, that of the liberal billionaire, has become lonelier in recent years. The revival of class politics on the left and the rightward shift of a prominent segment of the tech elite means that the “benevolent capitalism” championed by Gates has fewer takers.

The irony is that benevolent capitalism was the state religion of Silicon Valley when the dot-commers were battling the unbenevolent capitalism of Microsoft—an ethos encapsulated by “Don’t be evil,” Google’s motto for many years. Gates took it up after he went into philanthropy, and has kept the faith much longer than his former competitors.

Still, if Gates has resisted full feralization, he has also tried to ingratiate himself with the current regime, praising Trump after a private dinner in January 2025 and attending a knee-bending ceremony for tech leaders at the White House in September. “Thank you for incredible leadership,” he told the president, seated at a table with Sergey Brin, Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, and several others.

It is clarifying to see Gates in such company. He may once have waged war on Silicon Valley, but the Valley owes much of its present eminence to the playbook he drew up at Microsoft. Gates bent and broke laws, asked not for permission but for forgiveness (and rarely), helped himself freely to the intellectual property of others while vigorously protecting his own, and endeavored not merely to beat his competitors but to extinguish them by any means necessary. Above all he understood that software was the choke point in the personal computing revolution, that as computers proliferated, the code that made those computers useful—and especially their operating systems—would become critically important. Monopolies in the new era would be assembled not from agglomerations of infrastructure such as railroads but through mediating people’s access to the digital world. This privileged position would enable a firm to obtain what economists call “rents”: rather than compete with other companies on price and quality, the digital monopolist could demand something like tribute from his captive customers.

This is the dream that multiple generations of tech entrepreneurs have since pursued. Gates’s initial name for Microsoft Windows was “Interface Manager,” and the phrase aptly summarizes the project continued by his spiritual successors. From Brin to Zuckerberg to Altman, from search engines to social media to chatbots, the goal is to become the interface manager, controlling the surfaces that we use to simplify and humanize computing’s alien depths. Gates is the ghost in our machines."]]></description>
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    <title>When Oil Gets Expensive, Cities Get Better - YouTube</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The number of references far exceeds the maximum length that YouTube allows in descriptions, but you can access the full list of references on Nebula or at this link:
https://notjustbikes.com/references/expensiveoil.txt

Thumbnail photo (Eerste van der Helststraat, 1978)
https://archief.amsterdam/beeldbank/detail/0aad26fc-e9bf-e57e-55a5-602f535594d3

This video uses stock footage from Getty Images, Reuters, and other licensed sources.

---
Chapters
0:00 Intro
2:52 The first oil crisis
4:48 Dutch vs American protests
7:19 Changes in the US & Canada
11:13 Two responses to an oil crisis
14:25 Alternatives to oil
15:34 Stop lighting shit on fire
18:16 Suburbia lives off of cheap oil
19:43 A new hope & conclusion
20:41 Day Pass & Nebula

---
Corrections
3:02 The embargo started in 1973, not 1972
5:32 Plan Jokinen was proposed in 1967, not 1966"]]></description>
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    <title>Wealth of Recriminations</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Wallace Shawn's caustic monologue about capitalism and complicity gets an ingenious staging at Clio's Books."

...

"It was going to be a late night, so I stopped at Sana’a Cafe and chugged a cardamom coffee before pulling up at Clio’s Books a half hour shy of its 11pm close. The Saturday night crowd was lively; I picked up my program for the after-hours show—The Fever, a monologue by Wallace Shawn—and took my negroni over to the shelves, which Clio’s organizes by the sweep of history, from ancient Mesopotamia to our murky present. There was a whole shelf of Aristotle, with his belief that drama should show the high-born fallen into adversity. Das Kapital gazed out boxily from a corner across the room.

“The festival’s all EDM this year,” said someone at a bar table. “I’m not going.”

“Honestly,” from a different table, “if Point Reyes just doesn’t happen, that would be fine with me.”

Strolling through the centuries, I got held up in the Enlightenment. Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments caught my eye; written a few years after the 1755 Lisbon earthquake, it contains an early account of the globalized condition in which we contemplate distant suffering from a position of absolute comfort. A “man of humanity” in Europe, hearing of catastrophe in a distant land, Smith wrote, would “express very strongly his sorrow for the misfortune of that unhappy people... enter into many reasonings concerning the effects which this disaster might produce upon the commerce of Europe.... And when all this fine philosophy was over, when all these humane sentiments had been once fairly expressed, he would pursue his business or his pleasure, take his repose or his diversion, with the same ease and tranquillity, as if no such accident had happened.” Yet for his own sake, “if he was to lose his little finger to-morrow, he would not sleep tonight.” Of course the man of humanity would never choose to have a multitude of foreigners perish in place of his little finger. That would make him a monster.

“What was this play about again?”

“I was reading up. The playwright was in The Princess Bride!”

Of the many plays Wallace Shawn has written, The Fever is the most autobiographical. Born into the Upper East Side household of New Yorker editor William Shawn, educated at prep school and elite universities, young Wallace came into middle life broadly sharing the values of his set: good taste, high culture, Cold War liberalism. It was the Reagan years, and a trip to Central America with his partner Deborah Eisenberg, that radicalized him. “I actually turned very much against myself and people like me,” he recently told Current Affairs, “and I certainly went through a period of extreme nausea and self-hate.” The Fever, completed in 1990, is the document of that nausea.

As closing time drew near, groups of friends and couples on dates were ushered from their tables and the space quieted. A couple of formally dressed staff walked around the edges of the room, setting up lights and hanging wires. The rest of us were guided to a small cluster of seats. One of the light-setters turned out to be director John Wilkins, who gave a few words of introduction; then the lights were killed, recorded gunfire rang out, and actor Benoît Monin leaped to the front of the room in a ski mask, raving about illness and torture, with a strobe light held so close to his mouth that the gleam of his teeth was painful to the eye.

There’s a haze that settles on a bar or café past midnight when you find yourself out later than intended. The space turns dreamlike, and if another late-night patron starts talking to you, their dream can infect your own. It’s like that to watch Monin perform: The monologue keeps changing topic, and as he writhes in pain or paces the floor in a tuxedo shirt with carnivalesque striped pants, you feel the urgency of his address (at one point I was apostrophized as his mother) but are kept guessing at his motives. And this is all before he beckons you from your seat to follow him in an hour-plus course of somnambulism through the darkened store, with lights, sounds, and unexpected prop arrangements touching up the phantasmagoria.

Shawn originally wrote the play to be performed for small gatherings in friends’ apartments, and it works by near immersion. The apparent situation is that a traveler in a poor country at civil war has come down with illness and is enduring a dark night of the soul. Between bouts of vomiting on the bathroom floor, he recalls the Proustian joys of his youth, his past life of privilege and taste, and his dawning awareness that others have had it far worse. That knowledge has become intolerable to him. The leaps in his monologue show the wanderings of a fevered brain, but they are also a search for a position from which the fact of inequality can be endured: he tries on the aesthete’s mantle (“I like Beethoven”), remembers small kindnesses (“I tell entertaining stories to people. I make jokes to the janitor”), pleads his own merit (“For God's sake, I worked for that money. I worked hard”). He undercuts his sympathies with reminders that his privilege travels with him—“Poor countries are beautiful. Poor people are beautiful. It's a wonderful feeling to have money in a country where most people are poor”—and finally falls back on the specter of violence: “The rule of the poor will always be incompetent, and it will always be cruel. The poor are bloodthirsty.”

He can rest easy in none of these stances. In the end there is no response to the fact of inequality, because to a man of humanity that fact is—in the word we all most associate with Shawn—inconceivable.

What we’re witnessing is a conversion narrative. But does it end in a true shift, or simply another point in the oscillation? As in Harold Pinter’s political plays, the text’s abstraction places the fever dream at a remove from the world. We don’t know the name of the country being visited, or the specifics of its beauties and terrors. A couple of figures—a chambermaid, a guerrilla fighter—represent the poor, but they remain a concept. There is a darkly funny fantasy in which the traveler imagines having poor friends, and visiting their squalid home for a repellent meal, but it remains fantasy. If inequality is impossible to deny, it may be equally hard to confront in a sustained way. As the traveler ruefully puts it, recalling his first reading of Marx: “For two days I could see the fetishism of commodities everywhere around me. It was a strange feeling. Then on the third day I lost it, it was gone, I couldn't see it anymore.”

Wherever we’re headed, we’re in good company. Wilkins and Monin have fleshed out the text with great ingenuity; the shifts in tone are vertiginous, the prop comedy is charming until it turns queasy, and the staging conceit keeps the audience active and off balance. As far as activity beyond the curtain call, we may have a better vantage point than Shawn’s imaginary traveler. We live in the real world; we know about protests, mutual aid, tenants unions. Wheels are waiting for shoulders.

At one thirty in the morning I stepped outside and found Grand Avenue as I’d left it: storefronts, scattered lamps, a few thumping cars. The man on a mobility scooter in front of a liquor store, jiggling imaginary drumsticks in his hands, caught my wry smile as I came down the sidewalk. It can be so hard to know when you’re meeting a person as himself, I was thinking, and not simply taking him as representative of his condition.

“Hey there, mama,” the man said to me. “Top of the morning. Wish I had a friend like you to take home.”

“Have a good night,” I answered, half smile in place, and drove home alone."]]></description>
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    <title>What People Want From Our Schools Has Never Been Accomplished, Anywhere, Ever</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-13T05:14:57+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["educating an entire society into prosperity is a radical modern fantasy, not "getting things back to normal""

...

"We Don’t Know If What We’re Trying is Possible

The United States has embarked on a project that is historically unprecedented: the attempt to make every student “college-ready” and to build a labor market that presumes universal higher education. The degree to which “college for all” is an explicit demand can be lawyered forever; if you’d like to say “No one actually wants college for all,” go ahead. The simple reality is that making all students college ready has long been a thinktank demand, a politician promise, and a goal of charter school networks; whether you want to call it a strawman or not, the idea that the entire labor market is going to flow through schooling, that we’re going to educate our citizenry into employability, is a central reality of modern American economics and politics. In The Cult of Smart I quoted (I believe) every president from Carter through Obama as endorsing education as the path to prosperity. And in the neoliberal era, where so much of the labor market for uneducated citizens has been dismantled, nobody has a very good idea of how people reach the good life without education. So we’re trying to educate everybody. Simple!

I need people to understand this: no society in history has ever achieved such a thing, not even the most aggressively meritocratic or education-obsessed ones. There are countries with better aggregate education data than ours (although there’s always caveats and context) and there’s countries with a higher percentage of adults with college degrees (although in some countries college-level work is similar to the high school-level work that American students do). There are no countries that have built an economy where every worker actually possesses the kind of skills that most are thinking of when they think of a college education, and there are no societies in history where education has been the dominant creator of jobs and financial opportunity in the way implied by the rhetoric we routinely hear from politicians. The idea that we can take a population of tens of millions of young people, with all the diversity of ability, interest, and circumstance that entails, and funnel them into a single academic track is a radical social experiment, and the fact that there’s still so much constant angst about education suggests that it’s not going well. Pretending that we’re just trying to get education “back to normal” is a way of laundering a wildly ambitious scheme into inevitability, as if the failure to achieve this impossible standard is a deviation rather than the natural outcome of the attempt.

To imagine that we are simply replicating the supposed good old days by demanding college readiness for all is to ignore the fact that no country’s default has ever looked like this. And the constant escalation of crisis rhetoric has consequences. By treating universal college readiness as the baseline, we set ourselves up for perpetual crisis, because the system cannot deliver what it promises. Students who do not thrive in academic environments are cast as failures, even though they may possess skills and talents that societies have historically valued in other ways. Employers, meanwhile, inflate credential requirements not because the work demands it, but because the education arms race has made degrees into proxies for discipline and compliance. The result is a labor market that is both exclusionary and brittle, built on the false premise that education can be the sole engine of economic life. To insist that this is “normal” is to deny history, and to guarantee disappointment.

If you want to go ahead and grind whatever your particular axe about education happens to be, knock yourself out. But please, stop saying things like “I just want us to get back to a world where kids were graduating high school with basic skills!” Because the world you’re referring to never existed."]]></description>
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Date of recording: Feb 26, 2026"

[also here:
https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/40257385
https://sites.libsyn.com/495388/trump-isnt-just-president-he-is-a-gangster-and-a-businessman-w-jeremy-scahill ]]]></description>
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They're billionaires, politicians, judges and more. And they meet at private camp Bohemian Grove.

The membership is secret, but Daniel Boguslaw came to us with a full list of everyone involved.

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See the ProPublica story:
https://www.propublica.org/article/kristi-noem-dhs-ad-campaign-strategy-group

Other refs:
Walter Benjamin "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" https://amzn.to/4s5svwR
Algirdas Julien Greimas "Semiotics and Language" https://amzn.to/4tRF3cT
Jean Baudrillard "Simulacra and Simulation" https://amzn.to/4rWMzkC
Wilhelm Reich "The Mass Psychology of Fascism" https://amzn.to/4tAS3mS

00:00 - Fascism's New Face
11:03 - what's Hyperreal
18:35 - what's Fascism
32:01 - Kristi Noem ICE Barbie
38:52 - The Psychosexual Semiotics of Fascism"]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Watch E1 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmQS4rEJoh0

Episode 2: Wars begins with Nicaragua's Sandinista revolution, which promised egalitarian transformation through literacy crusades. But civil war erupted as United States President Ronald Reagan's administration covertly backed the Contra rebels, plunging the nation into turmoil and suffering.

Panama transitioned from Omar Torrijos's diplomatic triumphs over the Panama Canal to Manuel Noriega's sinister collaboration with both the CIA and drug cartels. The murder of Hugo Spadafora sparked his brother's campaign to focus US public and political attention on Panama, ultimately leading to a US military invasion and Manuel Noriega's downfall.

In Chile, the opposition achieved a dramatic popular victory, ending Augusto Pinochet's rule and igniting hope for democracy despite continued US influence.

Meanwhile, Venezuela's oil-rich democracy flirted with collapse under President Carlos Andres Perez amid debt crises, curfews and riots that paved the way for Hugo Chavez's rise and a new wave of regional upheaval."]]></description>
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    <title>The Billionaire Plan to Escape Democracy: Quinn Slobodian on 'Crack-Up Capitalism' - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2026-02-08T21:15:08+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Will tech billionaires get rid of democracy by getting rid of people?

In this episode of The Nerd Reich, Gil Duran sits down with renowned historian Quinn Slobodian (Globalists, Crack-Up Capitalism) to dissect the "ideology of exit." 

While the media focuses on failed "Freedom City" experiments like Prospera, Slobodian reveals a darker endgame: a shift toward automated, "post-human" infrastructure where voters are no longer part of the equation.

In this episode, we explore:

The Hong Kong Blueprint: How a colonial relic became the template for 21st-century capitalism.

Authoritarian Capitalism: Why Silicon Valley elites are obsessed with models of control.

The Post-Human Zone: Why the future of "sovereignty" belongs to Manhattan-sized data centers, not citizens.

The Octavia Butler Reality: What if future isn't about escaping the "company town," but fighting to get inside one?

Connect with Quinn Slobodian: https://bsky.app/profile/quinnslobodian.com

New Book: Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed (Releasing April 21, 2026): https://www.harpercollins.com/products/muskism-quinn-slobodianben-tarnoff?variant=43838135402530

Must Read: Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250753892/crackupcapitalism/ "

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    <title>Charlie Kirk: The Man Who Broke Politics - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2026-02-05T22:02:36+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9etjAosHGzA</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["BIBLIOGRAPHY & FOOTNOTES:
https://tinyurl.com/kirkvideosources

TIMESTAMPS:

INTRO: 00:00:00
PART 1: The American Question: 00:08:55
PART 2: Time for a Turning Point: 00:12:49
PART 3: Big Government Sucks: 00:34:23
PART 4: The Great American Horseshoe: 01:04:12
PART 5: Charlie's New Friends: 01:17:18
PART 6: The Noble Lie: 01:40:25
PART 7: Trump 2.0: 01:53:23
PART 8: Ouch, Charlie: 02:04:19
PART 9: The Demos 02:14:27
Credits: 02:46:57"]]></description>
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    <title>You are being misled about renewable energy technology. - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2026-02-03T21:30:52+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9nt2ZeGM</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Let's learn and grow. New things are cool!
Links 'n' stuff down below. Lots of links.

First, the "clean version." Please pass that around.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zgxb8I1nk2I

Jerry Rig Everything's video on battery recycling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2xrarUWVRQ

If you'd like a legal argument from an actual lawyer which highlights the uniquely strange and unchecked powers we have given DHS and ICE, this is worth a watch. I am not being hyperbolic in saying that this is a serious problem we need to face head on through abolishment, not reform.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkgNnbTrsgw
 
Here are a couple of corn ethanol vs. solar land use studies. There are more if you'd like to look for them.
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/04/trading-some-corn-ethanol-land-solar-offers-tremendous-opportunity
https://www.cleanwisconsin.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Corn-Ethanol-Vs.-Solar-Analysis-V3-9-compressed.pdf

I'm not gonna post links to my socials or my Patreon here.

Take care of each other.

00:00 Intro
07:35 Some opening notes
10:14 Cars and all the oil they use
15:38 Photovoltaics and electric cars
18:59 A cost and opportunity comparison
22:33 Solar farms
30:35 A discussion of land use
38:29 A diversion on wind power
41:17 The materials in solar panels
50:52 What about the batteries?
1:02:41 The reasons I made this video
1:10:16 The reason I am who I am
1:16:35 Who the liars are and what we need to do about them."]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2026-01-08T09:14:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-narco-trafficking-elite-set-to</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Marco Rubio’s personal ties to drug trafficking underscore a deep irony in the Trump administration’s attempts to use the drug war as a means of achieving their imperialist goals in Latin America."

[direct link to video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kf9DJM_GlAM

discussing:

"The Narco-Terrorist Elite"
https://prospect.org/2025/12/23/narco-terrorist-elite-rubio-south-america-iran-contra/

"Why is Marco Rubio so hell-bent on making Iran-Contra again?"]]]></description>
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    <title>The Narco-Terrorist Elite - The American Prospect</title>
    <dc:date>2026-01-08T08:55:39+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://prospect.org/2025/12/23/narco-terrorist-elite-rubio-south-america-iran-contra/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Why is Marco Rubio so hell-bent on making Iran-Contra again?"

[discussed here:

"The Narco-Trafficking Elite Set to Run Venezuela (with Maureen Tkacik) | The Chris Hedges Report"
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-narco-trafficking-elite-set-to
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kf9DJM_GlAM

"Marco Rubio’s personal ties to drug trafficking underscore a deep irony in the Trump administration’s attempts to use the drug war as a means of achieving their imperialist goals in Latin America."]]]></description>
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    <title>For more than half a century, the progressives in SF have been right—and the developers wrong - 48 hills</title>
    <dc:date>2026-01-04T04:05:17+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["We have murals and books and movies celebrating the opponents of demolitions like the I-Hotel and redevelopment. What will we look back on 20 years from now?"

...

"I was in Chinatown on Christmas Eve, walking around and looking at murals depicting community leaders and struggles, including the battle to save the I-Hotel. And as I hear about all the people affiliated with the Yimbys and the billionaires talk about how San Francisco has to change, and can’t be “preserved in amber,” I have been thinking about the 1970s and 1980s, and the I-Hotel, and redevelopment, when “progress” was a watchword and some of the same arguments echoed in the news media.

And I looked at those murals of people and causes we now revere, and I thought:

All those years, consistently, the progressives, the people on the left, the ones who fought uncontrolled growth and development and what was called “progress,” and who tried to preserve existing affordable housing even when it made no “financial sense” and was in the way of a “better” city …. they were right.

They were right, and now we look at them and celebrate their work—although at the time, the city leaders, including then-Mayor Dianne Feinstein and a majority of the supervisors, dismissed them as obstructionists.

The I-Hotel, a residential hotel with low-cost rooms, was the heart of Manilatown, the center of Filipino life in San Francisco. It also housed Chinese seniors.

Walter Shorenstein, a greedy developer who later became enough of a philanthropist that some people respected him, bought the I-Hotel and moved to demolish it to build a parking garage. The left and the local community fought him. Then he sold it to a liquor baron from Thailand operating as Four Seas Investment Company, who wanted to demolish it for market-rate housing—and again, a huge campaign fought against him.

But in the end, it was Feinstein and a majority of the supervisors who approved the demolition—and for almost ten years, the place stayed empty, a hold in the ground, before Four Seas gave up and sold it to the Catholic Church, which eventually turned it into affordable housing.

Today, we all seem to agree: Shorenstein was wrong. Feinstein was wrong. The community, including (yes) some hard-core leftists, was right.

After 40 years as a reporter here, I can look back on so many examples.

The opponents of redevelopment in the Western Addition and Soma were right. The opponents of freeway expansion were right. At the time, they were dismissed as opponents of progress.

The neighborhood folks who added demolition controls for housing after developers demolished vintage Victorians in the Richmond for multi-unit housing that was not affordable were demonized as Nimbys. Today, everyone I talk to in the Planning Department says they were right, that it should be hard to demolish existing housing.

Feinstein and the landlords told the activists who fought for rent control that it would stop developers from building new housing and cause disinvestment and blight. Feinstein and the landlords were wrong; the tenants were right.

Feinstein, the Chamber of Commerce, and many others fought against plans to limit office growth, saying any restrictions would ruin the economy. They were wrong. The progressive and neighborhood folks who put Prop. M on the ballot in 1986, who resisted highrise office construction (in part because developers built no housing for the new workers) were right.

Proposition M saved San Francisco from the overbuilding that almost bankrupted cities like Houston.

(At the time, Ronald Reagan’s deregulation of Savings and Loans and accelerated depreciation rules poured a massive amount of speculative capital into highrise office construction; many of those buildings were never occupied, and the S&Ls crashed, leading to a massive taxpayer bailout.)

The developers and the Chron dismissed supporters of an Office Housing Production Program, which would have mandated office developers to build housing for their workers, saying it would slow office construction and hurt the economy. The developers, who created the housing crisis by bringing tens of thousands of new workers to the city while not building housing for them (because it wasn’t profitable enough) were wrong. The progressives were right.

(In the 1970s and 1980s, the progressives were the ones demanding more housing. The developers made more money building offices, so that’s what was built. The much-maligned neighborhood downzoning of 1978 was Feinstein’s way of undermining the 1979 measure Prop. O, which would have limited downtown office development. Progressives opposed offices, not housing; The downzoning plan was sold as a way to protect neighborhoods from office creep, which was a very real fear back then.)

The mainstream at City Hall, and the major news media, said people who supported public power and said PG&E was an illegal monopoly that charged too much for bad service were crazy. The powers that be dismissed the Bay Guardian—a leading voice for public power—and tried to marginalize that paper as much as possible. Most of the city establishment (including at least one former PG&E lobbyist) now agrees public power advocates were, and are, right.

You look at San Francisco history over the past half century, and there’s a pattern: Over and over, everyone supported by PG&E and big business and the developers and the real-estate industry was wrong. The people who organized the neighborhoods, and the people on the economic left, were right. Today, we celebrate their victories.

As we enter 2026, I have to wonder: Ten, 20, 25 years from now, what will we say about the likes of Scott Wiener and the Yimbys—and what will we say about the progressives who have a different vision for San Francisco?"]]></description>
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    <title>The Trillion Dollar War Machine (with William D. Hartung) | The Chris Hedges Report</title>
    <dc:date>2026-01-02T07:31:19+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The military-industrial-complex has grown into a monster so powerful that even its earliest critics likely never foresaw its evolution. In the age of Big Tech's rising power, can anything stop it?"

...

"The military-industrial-complex (MIC) is unique in its ability to pull untold flows of tax revenue into “defensive” infrastructure that benefits no one other than the private sector manufacturing and investing in it. The machine, which perpetuates itself through an incestuous milieu that lobbies for war and defense spending, wages psychological warfare on citizens and engages in corrupt backroom deals, has risen to once unthinkable heights of influence and power since Dwight D. Eisenhower first warned Americans of its growing presence in 1961.

Political scientist William D. Hartung joins this episode of The Chris Hedges Report to discuss his and Ben Freeman’s new book, The Trillion Dollar War Machine, which contextualizes the growth of the MIC behind the backdrop of Silicon Valley’s increasing radicalism and integration into American military infrastructure, as well as the Trump administration’s chaotic and unabashed foreign policy.

These tech elites push for automated warfare, domestic surveillance, and the full diffusion of any line still separating the corporate and public sectors. In essence, they symbolize how significantly Western capital has grown since Eisenhower’s warning — bolstering a corporate state bent on maximizing profit through warfare and manufacturing reliance on its often faulty products both in the public and private sector.

Empowered by the Trump administration, the trillion dollar war machine only looks to grow — and Hartung says that it will harm the entire nation in its endless quest for domination."

[direct link to video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mxti7sPPD0 ]]]></description>
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    <title>REPLAY: Signal's Meredith Whittaker on Backdoors and AI - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2026-01-01T01:36:49+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["This is a special interview episode with Meredith Whittaker, the president of the Signal Foundation. I'm sure you all know, and maybe even use, the Signal messaging app. Here we sat down with Whittaker to talk all about the state of Signal today, the threat of AI to end-to-end encryption, what backdoors actually look like, and much more. This is a wide-ranging discussion where one of the few journalists who has revealed new details about backdoors (Joseph) gets to speak to one of the most important people in the world of encryption (Whittaker). Definitely take a listen. Paid subscribers got access to this episode early by the way.

- Dark Wire: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/tit...
- Signal page on government data requests: https://signal.org/bigbrother/
- Microsoft Will Switch Off Recall by Default After Security Backlash: https://www.wired.com/story/microsoft-recall-off-default-security-concerns/
- Telegram CEO Pavel Durov interview:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ut6RouSs0w "]]></description>
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    <title>The News: Fool Me All the Time? I Must Be an Editor of the New York Times</title>
    <dc:date>2025-12-25T17:03:23+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In the waning years of apartheid, the New York Times bureau chief in Johannesburg was Christopher Wren. His coverage used to drive me nuts, because Wren always worked from the premise that what the government said was the starting point for the news, even if it was the apartheid government, a government that had a singular ideological perspective that it dogmatically enforced at all times. That wasn’t just a in-public commitment, either. In the last decade, I’ve been working on the Cold War era in sub-Saharan Africa primarily through American and UK archives and whether I’m reading in the mid-1950s all the way into the 1980s, I come across American and British officials, many of them politically conservative and fairly racist in their own right, expressing exasperation to one another over the delusional stridency of government officials from Pretoria in any meeting or conference they were included in. In Wren’s reportage, this meant that anything that people from the ANC, UDF, or other opposition group said about events in South Africa was treated as the biased opinion of people who had a reason to bend the truth and anything the government said at least started as factual. In either case, Wren might accept that his reportage had an investigative responsibility, but it went in different directions. To move from the government’s truth took investigative work to prove it false; to move from the opposition’s truth took investigative work to prove that it had some degree of accuracy.

I happened to be in the audience at an event where Wren spoke about his career after retirement. I took the opportunity to ask him why he had shaped his reporting in that way, given that after the end of apartheid, much of what he took to be rumor or ideologically-motivated claims about government-coordinated violence and apartheid propaganda were verified, and the depths of apartheid malfeasance, even with the destruction of many official records in the early 1990s, was revealed. I think the question confused him. I don’t think I was confusing in how I asked it. Inasmuch as he had an answer, it was that this is how reporting, especially foreign correspondence, worked. Governments had to be the starting place. A reporter, especially from somewhere else, couldn’t be expected to have a situational and local understanding of who to trust and who not to trust.

With many American dailies in the last half of the 20th Century, it wasn’t quite that straightforward. The Cold War provided one kind of structuring principle. Communist governments were presumed by reporters to be engaged in deception, Western governments were not. (Even though a fair number of American and European journalists were fully aware that the UK, US and French governments had sustained projects aimed at creating disinformation about their perceived adversaries.) Often this extended to the Global South: postcolonial governments were also assumed to be at the least unreliable in the information they provided, and this was a view that extended to individuals—often on the belief that both officials and ordinary people were simply not competent curators of information nor responsible witnesses to events.

This is a foundational perspective that remains in place in the mainstream legacy media in the United States. I’ve come to the conclusion that one reason the New York Times in particular is proving to be so accommodating to Trumpism is not any affection for Trump himself but that the upper editorial staff were feeling increasingly disoriented and frightened by pressures to change these kinds of deep assumptions—that they increasingly felt that an initiative like the 1619 Project had been an alien and unwanted intrusion into the correct way to see the world.

There have been other moments of similar disorientation in the history of mainstream American media. The struggle over whether to print the Pentagon Papers, whether to report on the COINTELPRO revelations, or whether to continue to investigate Watergate was not just about fear of legal and political retaliation, it was that all these stories made the world topsy-turvy. The government’s information was full of lies; the whistle-blowers and the leftist activists were the only place to get something like the truth. Later on, when Raymond Bonner and Alma Guillermoprieto reported in 1982 for the New York Times and Washington Post respectively that the Reagan-supported government in El Salvador had massacred over 800 villagers in El Mozote, both reporters were criticized not just by the American government but by some journalists for putting what ordinary people and the guerillas opposing the government said about what had happened ahead of official accounts. The editor at the NYT, Abe Rosenthal, was notorious for his intense anti-Communism, and eventually pulled Bonner from the assignment. And of course the American press, including Bill Keller of the New York Times, were notoriously devoted to reproducing what the US government said about the post 9/11 wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as truth until long after it became clear just how much was being concealed from the public—and once again, this involved a very deliberate ordering of truth that saw all criticism as fundamentally ideological, motivated and biased, whereas government-provided information started as default truth and had to be proven to be false or inaccurate before reporters could begin to deviate from its account of events.

I don’t think this is just the ideological bent of reporters and editors, Abe Rosenthal’s anti-Communism or Bill Keller’s liberal-hawk desire to demonstrate his patriotism notwithstanding. Mainstream journalists are here just a peninsula of a vast mainland that also counts among its inhabitants historians. No matter how determined I might be to read against the grain and render history “from below”, the fact is that as a historian of the 19th and 20th Centuries, most of my work rests on the vast torrents of information produced by governments, both for their publics and for themselves. Even the archives that trace their origin back to civil society live in the shadow of information flowing from and to governments. The professionalization of expertise in the 20th Century has almost always involved some form of quasi-statutory blessing by governments: a license, a credential, a testing process, the provision of data about expert or regulatory activity. (This is why it is so notable when a particular branch of government or a particular group of experts aggressively exempt themselves from requirements to produce official, authenticated data about their activities—say, in the resistance of U.S. police forces to tracking their discharge of weapons while on the job.)

Over time, however, most people whose jobs center on producing information and knowledge have learned how to keep their distance from and lessen their dependence on government-provisioned information—to think more critically about how archives came to be, how data is created and stored, how the world looks from inside of official power, to understand how classification regimes shape what circulates and what remains hidden.

Mainstream American journalists, on the other hand, are if anything worse at this aspect of their jobs at the present moment than at any time after the Pandora’s Box of Watergate was fully opened. That epiphany swung both ways for journalists in the 1980s and 1990s. It made many of them face just how much they’d facilitated substantive and consequential lies by political leaders in the past, not so much to cultivate their sources but just because that’s what you did if you were one of the boys. It made many of them recognize that starting from a default position that the government provided the truth you had to dig into was naive. Despite the reversion to form after 9/11, the profession seemed like it might be headed to the position that truth might start anywhere, that you really didn’t know what version of truth to stand behind until you dug into it with as few priors as possible.

Now, on the other hand, we’re faced with a mainstream press that gets lied to as a routine matter in the most unpracticed and amateurish ways, but that still insists on starting from what they’re told as a default.

Are Somalis garbage people who hate America? We’re looking into it! Did the Secretary of War order another attack on people clinging to a destroyed boat? We’ll check it out! Are tariffs are part of a coordinated plan to bring high-paying industrial jobs back to the United States? Well, despite there being no evidence of something you might call a plan, we’ll act as if this is the case until it’s proven otherwise.

Journalists, pundits and public commenters keep marveling that somehow the Trump White House gets away with it, that blatant lies and laughable delusions that would have brought any previous regime crashing down don’t amount to anything. If I were to witness a fatal hit-and-run accident and I wrote down the license plate of the car that sped off, I’m not entitled to marvel that the driver got away with it if I didn’t tell the police that I was a witness and didn’t provide the license number. The driver didn’t get away with it. I chose to help him escape the consequences.

I understand the point that pervasive, reflexive mistrust of every claim made by government officials and mainstream institutions has been one of the major reasons why disinformation and conspiracy theory have flourished in the last two decades. But this is not the fault of people who moved to a more skeptical regard for governmental authority and more openness to the truth-value of everyday witnessing and interpretation in the wider society. It is the fault of governments that lied while claiming to tell the truth, the fault of institutions that let lawyers tell them how to minimize liability rather than keep faith with their publics, the fault of politicians and public figures trying to escape the consequences for misconduct.

We are not going to re-establish trust in public knowledge because mainstream legacy journalists simply decide that they’ll return to reporting what the government says as the starting point for truth even when its falsehood is evident, or treating truth as something that has to be matched exactly to the distribution of voting preferences or partisan loyalties. It’s not even-handedness to treat each successive statement by an assembly of known liars as if this time it might be true until it is shown otherwise. It’s not just that the political appointees in the Administration lie routinely, it is that they are engaged in a systematic effort to destroy or contaminate the many forms of government-published data and evidence that have previously made it possible to evaluate the relative truthfulness or probity of government officials. There has never been a time where it is more urgently necessary to flip the script: if the Trump Administration says it, presume it’s an instrumental and conscious lie, and require them to produce reliable, objective, independent evidence to the contrary for the story to be written as anything different.

That’s the job. It doesn’t even take the courage that journalists in more thoroughly authoritarian states have to muster in order to do that job. At least not yet. I don’t think papers like the New York Times are managing their risk or feeling out the boundaries for what they can get away with. I think they’re stuck in long-set habits of thought and feeling righteously resentful about recent attempts to shake those habits loose. Now is not the time to get hung up on the time that the new reporter piously corrected the senior editor about the proper way to talk about transwomen. Don’t lecture people about the dangers of playing with matches while there’s a five-alarm fire happening right behind you. "]]></description>
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    <title>Mel Chin - YouTube</title>
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Speaker

Mel Chin is a conceptual artist known for a broad range of approaches to artmaking, including public initiatives realized through multidisciplinary, collaborative teamwork and works which enlist science as an aesthetic component to elaborate complex ideas. Throughout his career, Chin has developed a diverse portfolio of projects that employ artistic methods to not only address but intervene in urgent social, political, cultural, and environmental landscapes.

Since the 1980’s, Chin’s work has been exhibited in arts institutions around the world and installed across the United States through site-specific projects, from the ongoing Revival Field, a pioneering application of green remediation practices initiated in 1990, to Unmoored, a 2018 mixed reality experience located in Times Square that envisions a submerged future. Chin was one of the artists featured in the first season of the PBS Series Art of the 21st Century, focused on the theme of “consumption.” His 40-year survey exhibition at the Queens Museum, All Over the Place, was named the best art exhibition of 2018 by Hyperallergic. 

Chin is the recipient of numerous awards and grants, including the MacArthur Fellowship in 2019, his election to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2021, and the Hiroshima Art Prize in 2024. His work is included in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Menil Collection, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, among others. 

Moderator

Tei Carpenter is the founding director of Agency—Agency, a New York City based architectural design practice specializing in cultural and public projects. In parallel to design work, Carpenter is an assistant professor at the Princeton University School of Architecture and creates and leads participatory design and advocacy engagements, with past partners including the Ali Forney Center and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Her project New Public Hydrant, with Chris Woebken, is held in MoMA’s permanent collection.

Excerpts from Melrose Place © Paramount Global (CBS)"]]></description>
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    <title>Trump’s Pro-Hunger Agenda and the Cruel Logic of Capitalism | The MIT Press Reader</title>
    <dc:date>2025-11-14T18:45:28+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Don’t forget that food insecurity has long been a feature of Republican politics, not a bug."

...

"Andrew Fisher is the author of “Big Hunger: The Unholy Alliance Between Corporate America and Anti-Hunger Groups.”"

[See also:

"Big Hunger: The Unholy Alliance between Corporate America and Anti-Hunger Groups, by Andrew Fisher (2018)"
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262535168/big-hunger/

"How to focus anti-hunger efforts not on charity but on the root causes of food insecurity, improving public health, and reducing income inequality.

Food banks and food pantries have proliferated in response to an economic emergency. The loss of manufacturing jobs combined with the recession of the early 1980s and Reagan administration cutbacks in federal programs led to an explosion in the growth of food charity. This was meant to be a stopgap measure, but the jobs never came back, and the “emergency food system” became an industry. In Big Hunger, Andrew Fisher takes a critical look at the business of hunger and offers a new vision for the anti-hunger movement.

From one perspective, anti-hunger leaders have been extraordinarily effective. Food charity is embedded in American civil society, and federal food programs have remained intact while other anti-poverty programs have been eliminated or slashed. But anti-hunger advocates are missing an essential element of the problem: economic inequality driven by low wages. Reliant on corporate donations of food and money, anti-hunger organizations have failed to hold business accountable for offshoring jobs, cutting benefits, exploiting workers and rural communities, and resisting wage increases. They have become part of a “hunger industrial complex” that seems as self-perpetuating as the more famous military-industrial complex.

Fisher lays out a vision that encompasses a broader definition of hunger characterized by a focus on public health, economic justice, and economic democracy. He points to the work of numerous grassroots organizations that are leading the way in these fields as models for the rest of the anti-hunger sector. It is only through approaches like these that we can hope to end hunger, not just manage it."]]]></description>
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    <title>Monopoly Round-Up: Obamacare Is Cooked. What's Next?</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["But it’s not actually hard, conceptually, to get at the problem. The basics of how to fix health care are simple. Make all prices in health care standardized and transparent, and try and get rid of the power of all middlemen who don’t deliver care or directly produce medicine. Most mergers in health care happen to gain an advantage on pricing; if you just standardize pricing, the incentive to consolidate disappears. But to turn this dynamic into a political argument, Democrats are going to have to drop the pretenses that spending more is good, and that the problem is access to insurance. And Republicans are going to have to drop the pretense that there’s a private sector in health care. Whoever is able to turn health care into industrial policy will win this debate. Neither party is close.

That said, we know eliminating corporate bloat works; in July, I did a story about what happened when Ohio eliminated CVS Caremark and UnitedHealth, from running its drug benefit system for Medicaid. It turns out, the state saved $140 million over two years, even as dispensing fees to pharmacies increased by 1200% on average, and the program got better, with patients able to access 99% of pharmacies. Corporate waste is the main problem in health care.

Other states have also done something like this, with similar success. Abroad, the Japanese run a high quality cheap system. They do not have Medicare for all, there are lots of health insurers. But their government has a list of all treatments with a price next to each treatment. That’s the price. There’s no billing department to fight with other billing departments, there are no quality surveys to give bonus payments to hospitals, no random arbitration firms over price. The price is the price. It’s not like the U.S., where the same procedure or drug could have thousands of different permutations, depending on the insurer, hospital system, physician, and so forth. We could do what Japan does - Medicare has a price list. Just do Medicare prices for all, as Phil Longman keeps suggesting.

Getting rid of corporate power in medicine works. It took forty years to build the system we’re in, and most of our policy thinkers are captured by the complexity of the system and the unbelievably stupid obsession with middlemen. But popular rage is now at a boiling point. And saying things like “health care is a human right” or “everyone should have access to health care” isn’t going to cut it. Most Americans have health insurance. It’s just expensive and bad. It’s time to wake up to that."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Whitney Webb traces the Thielverse’s rise and the bipartisan construction of the modern surveillance state that Trump and his benefactors are deploying against dissidents and immigrants today."

...

"The descent into a new, mutated and technology-focused form of American fascism is already here. Those who have kept track of the rise of the Thielverse, which includes figures such as Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and JD Vance, have understood that an agenda to usher in a unique form of authoritarianism has been slowly introduced into the mainstream political atmosphere.

Whitney Webb, investigative journalist and author of One Nation Under Blackmail, joins host Chris Hedges on this episode of The Chris Hedges Report to document the rise of this cabal into the most powerful positions of the American government.

“I think now it’s quite clear that this is the PayPal Mafia’s moment. These particular figures have had an extremely significant influence on US government policy since January, including the extreme distribution of AI throughout the US government,” Webb explains.

It’s clear that the architects of mass surveillance and the military industrial complex are beginning to coalesce in unprecedented ways within the Trump administration and Webb emphasizes that now is the time to pay attention and push back against these new forces.

If they have their way, all commercial technology will be completely folded into the national security state — acting blatantly as the new infrastructure for techno-authoritarian rule. The underlying idea behind this new system is “pre-crime,” or the use of mass surveillance to designate people criminals before they’ve committed any crime. Webb warns that the Trump administration and its benefactors will demonize segments of the population to turn civilians against each other, all in pursuit of building out this elaborate system of control right under our noses."

[direct link to video:
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    <title>Drs. Wolff &amp; Ware DESTROY Gavin Newsom on AIPAC/Housing/Economy (with Richard Wolff &amp; Butch Ware) - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2025-10-23T23:14:21+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Marxist economist Richard Wolff returns to Bad Faith along with historian, professor, and Green Party candidate for the governor of California Butch Ware, to forensically break down California governor Gavin Newsom's recent viral appearance on Higher Learning with Van Lathan & Rachel Lindsay. Wolff & Ware weigh in on Newsom evasions in response to questions about the inherent contradictions of capitalism, California's failure to implement Medicare for All, & the "interesting" AIPAC moment, but the Higher Learning interview serves as a jumping off point for a broader and deeper conversation about the future of left politics, Zohran Mamdani, and the limits of the Democratic Party. (It's spooky season, and there's something magical happening with this guest pairing.)"]]></description>
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    <title>Storm Warnings | Mark Lilla | The New York Review of Books</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The MAGA movement is not fed by conservative ideas but by a nihilistic, apocalyptic determination to stage a counterrevolution against the Sixties, against liberalism, against even democracy itself."

[archived:
https://archive.ph/j5yPC ]

"John Ganz’s When the Clock Broke changed my mind about many things. As someone who joined the staff of the neoconservative public policy magazine The Public Interest a few months before Ronald Reagan was first elected, I found it easy at the time to look at the previous forty years of American politics as a “preparation of the Gospel,” to borrow Eusebius’s phrase. By the end of the decade a healthy convergence did indeed seem to be taking place between a chastened liberalism among educated elites and a temperate conservatism among the mainly white Republican electorate. The fall of the Berlin Wall followed by the election of the moderate liberal Bill Clinton seemed to augur a new age of consensus and equilibrium in American politics. It was this kind of thinking that led many neoconservatives of my generation, most notably Francis Fukuyama, to think that the drawn-out historical drama in the West running from 1789 to 1989 had reached its terminus. Not that history as such was over (Fukuyama never said that, so please get off his back), but at least this two-century struggle over the best political order was.

Today it is this progressive epos that has reached its end, for reasons obvious and not so obvious. As Ganz shows, it did not account for the emergence in the 1990s of a small band of idiosyncratic “paleoconservatives” who harked back to the isolationism and nativism of the pre-war America First movement. These populist paleos rallied around figures like the Nixon crony Pat Buchanan and the radio shock jock Rush Limbaugh, who in 1988 began his hugely influential talk show, which spawned many imitators. Still, even by early 2016 the moderate liberal Hillary Clinton and the moderate conservative Jeb Bush appeared to be leading contenders for their parties’ presidential nominations, and the paleos seemed to be outliers, yesterday’s news. I recall meeting a well-known French TV journalist at the time who interviewed me for a book on the new great dynasties of American politics, the Clintons and the Bushes. The drinks were free and we spoke long into the night. I blush to recall it.

And of course we were not just a little wrong about the election’s outcome. We were wildly, thickheadedly, extravagantly, cluelessly, retchingly wrong about some of the deepest intellectual and cultural currents that had been surging through American society over the previous three decades. Ganz forces his liberal and conservative readers to confront everything they preferred not to see at the time."

...

"Laura Field’s Furious Minds is the most up-to-date introduction we have to the MAGA intellectual right reshaping America with astonishing speed today. She devotes a thorough chapter to the Catholic postliberals and another to the Christian nationalists aiming to homeschool their way to a new America. She is particularly good on the less well known National Conservatives, an increasingly powerful group with a global reach that rejects liberal internationalism and looks with admiration to Viktor Orbán’s Hungary and the Likud Party’s Israel as models of civic health. And over several chapters she also gives us a paddleboat tour of the Internet cesspool of alt-right neoreactionaries who, under slogans like “accelerationism” and “dark enlightenment,” promote the hastening of social and economic apocalypse to clear the way for a postdemocratic techno-state ruled by misogynistic strongmen.

But the most interesting chapters are those that Field devotes to a sect of Leo Strauss admirers at the Claremont Institute in California, which has become the most radical and disciplined intellectual force on the MAGA right. The institute, which has no official connection with the Claremont Colleges, was founded in 1979 by followers of Harry Jaffa, an eccentric early student of Strauss’s who in the wider world was mainly known for two things: a seminal study of the Lincoln–Douglas debates (Crisis of the House Divided, 1959) and a convention speech he wrote for Barry Goldwater in 1964 that included the disastrous line “Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice,” which the LBJ campaign successfully exploited to portray Goldwater as a dangerous lunatic. Less remembered is the following sentence of the speech—“Moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue”—which would soon prove very much in the activist spirit of the 1960s. Jaffa wasn’t really a conservative at all; he believed in the existence of universal natural rights and natural human equality, as did the authors of the Declaration of Independence, he reminded his readers. America in his view was primarily a creedal nation with a mission promulgated in the Declaration, not a pragmatic constitutional republic like those to be found at different moments in Western history. Jaffa was in equal measure a Straussian Platonist and a red-white-and-blue Jacobin who just happened to write for National Review.

Field has a privileged perch from which to report on the Claremont Institute, having been trained academically by Straussians, and she carefully follows its development into the intellectual nerve center of the New Right. Until the 2010s it was considered one of the mainline conservative think tanks on the Republican side, and its outsize influence was mainly owing to the number of summer programs in classic political texts it ran over the years for high school and college students. Former fellows can be found throughout the Trump administration as well as in the Senate (Tom Cotton) and in right-wing media (Laura Ingraham, Ben Shapiro, Mark Levin, Dinesh D’Souza). But in the last fifteen years the tone of the institute’s work has become increasingly apocalyptic and impatient for action. Field points to the significance of a short-lived online journal started by Claremont affiliates with the unironic title Journal of American Greatness. One of its contributors was a recent director of policy planning in the Trump White House, Michael Anton, who just before the 2016 election wrote an unhinged online article channeling Jaffa’s radicalism that began:

<blockquote>2016 is the Flight 93 election: charge the cockpit or you die. You may die anyway. You—or the leader of your party—may make it into the cockpit and not know how to fly or land the plane. There are no guarantees. Except one: if you don’t try, death is certain. To compound the metaphor: a Hillary Clinton presidency is Russian Roulette with a semi-auto. With Trump, at least you can spin the cylinder and take your chances. To ordinary conservative ears, this sounds histrionic.</blockquote>

And not just to those ears.

The article, which was promoted by Rush Limbaugh, ricocheted across the Internet, and according to Field it marked the moment when a number of seemingly conservative Straussians shed their rhetorical moderation and came out as full-throated MAGA populists. Why they fell for Trump, of all people, still needs explaining. The twentieth-century statesman whom Strauss and his earliest students professed to admire most was Winston Churchill, and the lipstick that could make our current president resemble him has yet to be invented. But over the past decades, beginning with the publication of Allan Bloom’s best seller The Closing of the American Mind in 1987, a mood of cultural apocalypticism wholly alien to Churchill has colored ever more darkly the Straussians’ ruminations about contemporary America and the destiny of “the West.” Apocalypticism has the capacity to rewire the brains of even the most reflective individuals and distort their vision to such a degree that even a bullying plutocrat with a deep fake tan can appear as the Messiah. The yearning for a national savior is enough to make you forget all about Plato, Aristotle, and the American Framers."]]></description>
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    <title>To Save Public Higher Ed, Stop Revering California’s Tiered System - Public Books</title>
    <dc:date>2025-10-14T02:59:55+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["At San Francisco State University, 2023 marked the lowest enrollment in almost half a century. That is, until 2024, when SFSU enrollment dropped again: from the previous year’s 23,700 total undergraduate and graduate students to only 22,375 students. In fact, a steady decline had begun back in 2018, which was then accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, according to SF State President Lynn Mahoney, this decline will extend into the foreseeable future (this is due to the demographics of the state—the majority of Californians live in the south—and the so-called demographic cliff—a decline in national birth rates attributed to the 2008 financial crisis).

However, across the Bay from SF State, the University of California–Berkeley enjoys booming admissions. One of the flagships of the entire UC system, Berkeley boasts an 11.7 percent acceptance rate, nearly 80 percent of whom are California residents. Clearly, neither tuition ($8,256 in-state for SF State and $17,478 for UC Berkeley), the application processes (while both systems no longer require standardized test scores, Berkeley’s holistic review takes into consider things beyond high school grades, like extracurriculars and high school rank), nor the exorbitant cost of living in the Bay Area are what’s keeping would-be college students from attending SF State rather than Berkeley.1

Resources and prestige are seemingly obvious reasons for the differing circumstances of these two institutions—and to a varying extent between the University of California System and the California State University System more generally. The accruing of both to the UCs at the expense of the CSUs and community colleges—as Andrew Stone Higgins argues in Higher Education for All: Racial Inequality, Cold War Liberalism, and the California Master Plan—was an intentional project of the much renowned Master Plan. Though often remembered through rose-colored glasses for its promise of free tuition for California residents, the Master Plan was lambasted by the student activists of the 1960s for enshrining institutional hierarchy into public higher education and thus exacerbating racial and economic inequality. Perhaps the most influential higher education policy of the 20th century, the Master Plan, and the critiques against it, offer important insights into our current crises of higher education.

Thus, long before U.S. News and World Report began to issue its asinine and insidious college rankings, the Master Plan created a tiered education system in the guise of public good by not only differentiating the function of each institution but also the students they should admit. Before the Master Plan, as Higgins recounts, “the UC had accepted the top 15 percent of graduating high school seniors from California, and the state colleges had taken on upward of the top 45 percent. After the Master Plan, the UC would begin to curb admissions to the top 12.5 percent of students, while the state colleges set a firm limit of 33 percent. The remaining 67 percent—up from 55 percent prior to the Master Plan—were consigned to community colleges.” Due to racial segregation, that meant California’s minorities students were by and large relegated to community colleges that received less funding. Though ostensibly the plan promised easy transfer from community colleges to the four-year institutions, the vast majority of community college students at the time never did—and today fewer than 10 percent do. And the UC system has only gotten more competitive: Today the UC Statewide guarantee only applies to the top 9 percent of California high school graduates—and not to their campus of choice.

Given this institutional baggage, it doesn’t inspire much confidence that the latest plan to save California state schools like SF State doesn’t target the real issues. Instead, to combat declining enrollment, SF State and a number of other struggling schools in the Cal State University System (CSU) have turned to a seemingly progressive solution, launching this fall 2025.

“Direct admissions” allow colleges to automatically admit students that meet minimum criteria. In the case of California, the state’s new pilot program—especially hoping to attract low-income, nontraditional, and Black and brown students—will offer direct, conditional admissions to 10 of the CSU’s 23 universities to qualified high school seniors in Riverside County, one of the fastest growing counties in the state. Cal State East Bay, located south of Oakland in Hayward, will launch a similar program for high school graduates of Hayward and neighboring San Leandro public schools. CSU is following in the footsteps of over a dozen other states, including Illinois, New York, Oregon, Tennessee, Georgia, and Idaho, the first state to implement direct enrollment in 2015.

The CSUs and many struggling regional public universities have turned to open admissions. Simplifying access for low income, nontraditional, and Black and brown students through direct admissions is an admirable goal, but the desire to increase enrollment is really a desire to increase tuition receipts, whether from students themselves or federal aid like Pell grants.

The CSU system boasts being “the nation’s largest four-year public university system, providing transformational opportunities for upward mobility to more than 450,000 students from all socioeconomic backgrounds” with over “one in every 20 Americans holding a college degree [from] CSU.” Their and other non-flagship public universities’ ability to continue to be the “the workhorse of social mobility” was jeopardized well before Trump—the result of a decades-long, bipartisan retreat at the state and federal level from funding public higher education, with California and the Master Plan at the vanguard. Neoliberal competition between colleges for funds has only exacerbated this trend.

Ronald Reagan made his political career, and the new right itself, during his successful gubernatorial campaign of 1966, by, in the words of Higgins, “focus[ing] his ire on the three key issues of race, the Vietnam War, and public higher education.” However, the student activists that he hoped to squash—the 1964–65 Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley and later the Black Student Union and Third World Liberation Front 1968 strike at SF State—had largely emerged to protest the supposedly more liberal 1960 Master Plan for making public higher education a tool of the US war machine and racial segregation.

While the issue facing public universities in the 21st century is low enrollment and demographic declines, the Master Plan sought to prepare California’s institutions of higher education for the demographic boom and scientific arms race of the Cold War era. Though a number of California policymakers were involved, the plan was largely a compromise between Roy Simpson, Superintendent of Public Instruction and thus de facto head of the California State College (later university) system, and Clark Kerr, the president of the UCs. While Simpson sought to gain more prestige for the state colleges, Kerr wanted to maintain the UC’s monopoly on scientific research in the wake of the 1958 National Defense Education Act. When the Master Plan was sign into law in 1960, the community colleges were charged with “technical training,” the state colleges with “occupational training,” and the UCs with “professional training.” This division largely still holds, with the UCs monopolizing doctoral programs and the CSUs fighting to keep California’s community colleges from offering bachelor degrees.

Though Kerr has long been revered as the mastermind of the Master Plan, both he and Simpson held what Higgins cogently argues was an “instrumentalist vision of educational attainment above any consideration of the effects their system would have on California’s large and diverse minority population.” Neither California’s diverse population, nor the growing number of women entering higher education were concerns for the architects of the Master Plan. The Master Plan inaugurated many of the problems facing higher education today—the overemphasis on STEM education; the dependence on federal and private funding for questionable, warmongering and surveilling industries; and the funneling of public funds to the already privileged. While we can indeed blame Reagan and the new right for laying the groundwork for public universities’ dependence on tuition, the antidemocratic structure of the Master Plan laid the groundwork for public education as individual, private good and, in the words of Kerr, “‘a society much like a modern university—highly competitive, essentially undemocratic, effective.’”2 That sounds strikingly like Trump’s vision for higher ed.

The student activists at the time recognized this contraction of access for what it was. Higgins surveys a large sample of student movements throughout the state—from Berkeley’s famed Free Speech Movement and the Black Student Union and Third World Liberation Front Stike at SF State to the Chicano Master Plan for Higher Education at UC Santa Barbara. The Third World Liberation Front’s strike was as much a struggle for Black and ethnic studies as it was one for more diverse admissions and faculty hiring. Higgins opens his history of the Master Plan and student critique with a March 1971 article by UC Davis student-activist Fusha Hill published in the student paper, the California Aggie:  “Black students are attempting to show the academic community that the policies laid down in the Master Plan are inherently racist.” A month later excerpts from the piece were republished in Fresno State’s Daily Collegian because, as Higgins explains, “Hill’s critique could speak to the concerns of student activists at both the UC and state colleges, as well as California’s community colleges, because all three systems were regulated by the admissions standards that had been established by the 1960 California Master Plan for Higher Education.” Originally titled “Davis Campus Community Effort in Support of a Meaningful UC Budget,” the Daily Collegian  retitled the piece “Open Admissions Stop Institutional Racism” and signed it “the Third World.”

Unfortunately, as the dismantling of affirmative action makes clear, many Americans may not want to stop institutional racism. However, part of why the right’s campaign against affirmative action was so successful is that admissions criteria at selective universities, including public flagships, seem nebulous and arbitrary. And, coupled with rising costs, many Americans are beginning to question the value of a college education at all. In favoring selectivity over the public good, the Master Plan laid the groundwork for some colleges to be perceived as less worth attending than others. Rather than a means to bail out the budgets of cash trapped public regional universities, open admissions to all state-funded public universities—including prestigious flagships like UC Berkeley—could break the competitive concentration of prestige, increase affordability through more egalitarian institutional funding, and restore Americans’ faith in higher education as a public, rather than “highly competitive, undemocratic” good."]]></description>
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    <title>Project 2025, Silicon Valley &amp; Tech's AI War on Democracy | The Nerd Reich Podcast Mailbag - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2025-10-13T18:45:40+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["What happens when Project 2025, Silicon Valley, and AI collide?

In this Nerd Reich Mailbag episode, host Gil Duran sits down with Brooke Harrington (author of "Offshore: Stealth Wealth and The New Colonialism) and Adam Becker (author of "More Everything Forever") to answer listener questions about authoritarianism, AI power, and the new tech-driven assault on democracy.

🔥 Topics include:

How Project 2025 was planned like a “war against America”

The rise of the Tech Right — Musk, Thiel, and the Silicon Valley elite

How AI and algorithms are reshaping politics and power

The “Dark Enlightenment” and the anti-human turn in tech

Why dystopian science fiction was supposed to be a warning — not a blueprint

This episode is part political analysis, part cultural autopsy — and a call to understand how authoritarianism is accelerating in the digital age.

🎙️ Featuring:

Brooke Harrington — Professor of Economic Sociology, Dartmouth College
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Adam Becker — Astrophysicist & author of "More Everything Forever"
Follow on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/adambecker.bsky.social

Gil Duran — Host. Follow on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/gilduran.com
Follow on X: https://x.com/gilduran76

R.R. Robbins — Producer"

[See also
https://www.thenerdreich.com/project-2025-silicon-valley-techs-ai-war-on-democracy/ ]]]></description>
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    <title>Fighting San Francisco's Manhattanization with Tim Redmond - YouTube</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Welcome to another episode of the Doomloop Dispatch, the news show covering the worst parts of the San Francisco Bay Area. In this episode, Kevin and D Scott talk to Tim Redmond, editor of the 48 Hills and former executive editor of the Bay Guardian. We get into Tim’s reporting on the recall of San Francisco supervisor Joel Engardio and his thoughts on Engardio’s replacement. We also talk about how real estate speculation destroyed the city and the state of local legacy media. Really good stuff!

Sources

All of Tim’s stories in 48Hills
https://48hills.org/author/tim/

Here’s what Scott Wiener has done
https://48hills.org/2025/09/heres-what-scott-wiener-has-done/

The Engardio recall, Yimby urbanist elitism, and the next step in SF politics
https://48hills.org/2025/09/the-engardio-recall-yimby-urbanist-elitism-and-the-next-step-in-sf-politics/

The Engardio recall and the failure of conservative politics in SF
https://48hills.org/2025/09/the-engardio-recall-and-the-failure-of-conservative-politics-in-sf/

Strange (and maybe inappropriate) actions at the Planning Commission …
https://48hills.org/2025/09/strange-and-maybe-inappropriate-actions-at-the-planning-commission/

Bullshit opinion piece on Family Zoning plan
https://sfstandard.com/opinion/2025/09/21/small-business-lurie-upzoning-sharky-laguana-ben-bleiman/ "]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["After meeting him at Ivan Illich’s CIDOC, Holt kept in touch with Helmut Von Hentig, who had started an experimental lab school in Germany. This is an excerpt from a lengthy letter to Von Hentig, 8/25/1980, in the book A Life Worth Living: Selected Letters of John Holt (Ohio State University Press, 1990). 

What keeps me sane (though some might disagree), busy, and mostly happy in spite of all this is that I never did, and do not define myself exclusively or primarily as an “educator.” I am interested in human growth and learning, but only as part of a larger interest in society. Perhaps my deepest interest could be described as “How can we adults work to create a more decent humane, conserving, peaceful, just, etc. community, nation, world, and how can we make it possible for children to join us in this work, how can we take down the many barriers we have put up between the young and their elders?” Except insofar as we may find answers to those questions, there is very little we can do under the name of "education" to help young people grow up into whole, intelligent, sensitive, resourceful, competent, etc. human beings. This is not the old argument that we must reform society before we can do anything about education. It is to say that the only way young people can grow up well is by having constant and free access to adults who are working to make a decent society. Unless we have a sense of mission, the children will not have one—but our mission can't be simply “children."

At least, mine can't. To spend all of one’s time and energy thinking about how to best deal with children does not seem to me like serious work for a grown-up.

Which is to say that the presence of an army of child specialists will probably be bad for children, no matter what this particular army believed. 

I think that children need to live a considerable part of their lives free of the influence of adults, and out from under their eyes, and then in another large part of their lives, they should have as much access as they want to adults who are busy about their adult affairs. I have seen over and over again how children love to hang about at the edges of serious adult talk, perhaps only understanding a little of it, but intuiting that it is serious and stands for the world that they themselves are entering into.

They get none of this in school, and almost by definition, they can’t. A school is a place that exists only to take care of kids, and as such is more likely than not to be more bad than good for kids, no matter who is running it, and even if you or I were running it.

This thread, of helping young people find work worth doing in the world, and helping them to find and enjoying with adults were doing that sort of work, is something that will run more and more through Growing Without Schooling as time goes on.

I was enormously encouraged to read in the New York Times only a few days ago, but in the last year or two the number of small farms in New England, which had been declining for years, had risen sharply. We are learning once again to produce our own food and this can only be a good sign and many of these small farms would and do welcome young people as workers and apprentices.

The big picture in the US is discouraging. There are large invisible signs everywhere of a society in a state of collapse. For thirty years or so, ever since I first understood more or less what Fascism was about, I have felt that we are ready for it, that it would only take the right combination of circumstances and leadership to tip us in that direction. This seems to be truer now than ever.

At the same time, there are 100s of very encouraging small pictures. On a small and local scale Americans are doing a great many interesting, constructive, significant things—building a new and very different society under the shadow of the old. It is with this work and these people that I identify myself. Do we have time? Useless to ask the question. All we can do is work, hope for the best, and take care not to neglect our pleasures enjoys and joys—in my case, mostly music. …

Later in the letter John writes:

… But even in our inner cities there are signs of a new kind of leadership. … people who are saying, in effect, if our communities are going to be decent places to live, we are going to have to make them that way, no one else is going to do it for us.

We are beginning to give up here, at some cost, and with some pain, the destructive notion that the federal government, if we just passed the right laws and spent enough money, would solve all our problems for us. I wish there could be political expression of this idea under a more humane man than Reagan, who also expresses and perhaps mainly expresses nothing more than callous greed. But some people here are trying to shape a new politics, and I feel myself involved somewhat in this work."]]></description>
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    <title>CITY LIGHTS LIVE! Chris Carlsson celebrate the 2nd Edition of &quot;Hidden San Francisco&quot; - YouTube</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["City Lights and Shaping San Francisco celebrate the 2nd Edition of

Hidden San Francisco: A Guide to Lost Landscapes, Unsung Heroes, and Radical Histories
by Chris Carlsson
published by Pluto Press

Purchase the book at this link:
https://citylights.com/hidden-san-francisco-gt-lost-landscape

Hidden San Francisco is a guidebook like no other. Structured around the four major themes of ecology, labour, transit and dissent, Chris Carlsson peels back the layers of the city’s history to reveal a storied past: behind old walls and gleaming glass facades lurk former industries, secret music and poetry venues, forgotten terrorist bombings, and much more. Carlsson also delves into the Bay Area’s long prehistory, examining the region’s geography and the lives of its indigenous inhabitants before the 1849 Gold Rush changed everything.

This second edition includes new tours on the wild and natural parts of San Francisco that most tourists never visit, from Glen Canyon to Sutro Forest, as well as a new themed walk on the Summer of Love. There is also a new introduction examining the devastating impact of the pandemic, as well as a mini-history of tech in the city, from the Gold Rush to AI.

Chris Carlsson is a San Francisco historian and award-winning tour guide. He directs ‘Shaping San Francisco’ – an impressive archive of local history, and co-founded the urban cycling movement Critical Mass in 1992. He is the author of four books, including novels and histories about the city. He has lived in San Francisco since 1978. To learn more about Chris’ work visit his website: https://nowtopians.com/

This event was originally broadcast on Thursday, July 24, 2025.

Made possible by support from the City Lights Foundation."]]></description>
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    <title>Consumerism is the Perfection of Slavery - Prof Jiang Xueqin - YouTube</title>
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02:04 – The Shift Away from Worker-Centric Society in the 1980s 
02:52 – The Revolt of the Elite and Neoliberalism  
04:49 – Transition to the Consumer as the Organizing Unit   
06:14 – The Mentality of the Consumer and its Consequences   
11:53 – Consumerism as the Perfection of Slavery"

[Clip from "Geo-Strategy #9: Putin's War for the Soul of Russia"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY

"In his May 31, 2024 class, Jiang Xueqin explains why Putin is preparing to mobilize Russian society for total war:

Putin's favorite philosopher Aleksandr Dugin believes that Russia and the West are fighting Samuel Huntington's War of Civilizations in Ukraine.  What does he mean by this?  

In the late eighties, Francis Fukuyama published his "End of History?" essay, which argued that liberal democracy and consumerism are humanity's best conception of itself, and therefore history has ceased to be a dialectical argument.  

Both Dugin and Putin believe that Western consumerism is a poison pill that has corrupted Russian society.  It has manipulated Russians into betraying their own civilization, and this betrayal has led to political corruption, rampant alcoholism, and a declining population.  

In the war against Ukraine, Putin has discovered that continuous war can rejuvenate the Russian soul.  He is intent on channeling Russia's "warrior" culture to fight against consumerism."]]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The president’s tacky aesthetic is a window into his quest to become the single most enduring symbol of America."

[archived:
https://archive.ph/C5qGV ]

"That individualistic philosophy is why Trump is so invested in remodeling the White House, the Kennedy Center, and even museums in his own style — to exhibit his image as the greatest marker of success. It’s why, on the right, there’s such an overwhelming cult following around a single individual. There’s an obsession with personifying America, and Trump desperately wants to be that personification.
The America Trump wants to project, in other words, is not the Statue of Liberty welcoming “huddled masses yearning to breathe free” or a country of shared collective interests, but one that adheres to the concept of the survival of the fittest. And Trump seems to believe — or at the very least wants to convey — that he’s the fittest of us all.
Much of what has informed Trump’s whole philosophy is his simplistic idea of success: that his many failures aren’t necessarily a reflection on him, but that his success and wealth were achieved solely because of him. So the aesthetic Trump is trying his very best to push onto Americans — displays of sheer rugged strength, of vast wealth, of supposed success — points to a picture of an individualistic society that doesn’t really care about its past sins. Because in Trump’s world, so long as you amass an enormous amount of wealth and power (as both he and America have), then it’s all worth showing off.
It’s like he told Playboy back in 1990: “Let me tell you, a display is a good thing…It’s very important that people aspire to be successful. The only way you can do it is if you look at somebody who is.”
That’s why Trump doesn’t just want to be a political or historical figure, but a cultural icon that can represent American greatness long after he’s gone. He wants the whole world to forever look at him."]]></description>
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    <title>Is the economy causing a mental health crisis? - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2025-08-17T22:01:02+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Worsening mental health outcomes are often spoken about as if they are the fault of the individual, but is insecure mental health a natural outcome of an insecure economy?

And does the feedback work both ways - insecure economies cause people to be scared, easily manipulated, and individualistic, which prevents ordinary people from uniting and fighting back as a class?

Also a little on my own historical struggles with the economy and mental health, both in the past and now.

"In a mad world, only the mad are sane"  ~ Akira Kurosawa

Take care of yourselves and each other

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––––––

00:00 Introduction 
03:31 How mental health is affected by the economy 
04:55 My argument in less than 1 minute 
06:15 Mental health is a symptom of something bigger
09:50 Why deteriorating mental health makes political action so hard 
16:00 More and more people know collapse is coming
20:13 Hard work no longer pays
22:24 Personal struggles
25:09 What can we do?
30:17 Why it's so urgent"]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2025-07-24T07:27:40+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["There is one fantasy about Buckley that goes like this: America was better off when men like him were famous, and that we are lacking proper right-wing intellectuals. Of course, the right wing itself doesn’t believe this; they think they have plenty. It is liberals, and sometimes even leftists, who dream of a modern Firing Line. I sympathize with this fantasy but do not particularly share it. My wish, which is maybe equally childish, is that men like Buckley would be burdened by the fact of themselves. I would love to believe that people like him are conflicted, tortured, haunted in some way when, as they survey their lives, they confront what they have wrought. 

Tanenhaus offers no comfort in this regard. A priest, looking to reassure the devout Buckley, once suggested to him that “everyone at some point has doubts.” Buckley responds, “I never did.” The book gives me the sense that this is true of matters both spiritual and profane. Buckley never doubted, never wavered, merely laid down his head after a long, untroubled life. He lied as well as he did, and so prolifically and for so long, because it really came that easily to him.

Bill Buckley believed in hell. Vidal at least pretended to when he quipped, after Buckley died, “hell is bound to be a livelier place, as he joins forever those whom he served in life, applauding their prejudices and fanning their hatred.” I do not believe in hell, though. I think the world is all we are given. It was shaped in meaningful, irreparable ways by Buckley. It is hot, and cruel, and full of suffering."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["A sonic exploration of authoritarian indifference toward the lives of immigrants and their families."]]></description>
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    <title>The Republican Plot to Un-Educate America | The New Republic</title>
    <dc:date>2025-07-05T00:06:34+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://newrepublic.com/article/197017/budget-bill-kill-higher-education</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” is an extinction-level event for higher education that would annihilate the country’s intellectual potential."]]></description>
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    <title>Editorial Template for Every Time the United States Goes to War - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency</title>
    <dc:date>2025-07-04T23:11:34+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Americans awoke this morning to the news that the United States military had [DROPPED BOMBS AND / OR CARRIED OUT DRONE STRIKES] on [WHATEVER COUNTRY WE’RE BOMBING / DRONE STRIKING THIS TIME].

President [GUY WHO HAS COMMITTED MULTIPLE WAR CRIMES], a [REPUBLICAN / DEMOCRAT], sidestepped his [COMPLICIT / COWARDLY / TOTALLY INEPT] Congress, instead directly ordering [HIS LATEST WAR CRIME] much like his predecessor, [ANY PRESIDENT SINCE WORLD WAR II].

Rather than referring to the [UNCONSTITUTIONAL ACT OF WAR] as an act of war, the president instead called the [BOMBING CAMPAIGN AND / OR FULL-SCALE INVASION] a [EUPHEMISM FOR WAR, LIKE “MASSIVE, PRECISION STRIKE,” OR “TARGETED ACTION” OR SOME OTHER TERM THAT TIES A NEAT, LITTLE LINGUISTIC BOW AROUND GOVERNMENT-SANCTIONED MURDER].

The president justified the [CLEAR VIOLATION OF INTERNATIONAL LAW] by claiming that [WHICHEVER COUNTRY WHOSE CIVILIANS WE’RE CURRENTLY BLASTING TO SMITHEREENS] is [HARBORING / SPONSORING / SOMEHOW CONTRIBUTING TO TERRORISM], and is now an even greater threat than [THE LAST TERRORIST-SPONSORING COUNTRY WHOSE CIVILIANS WE WERE SHELLING THE SHIT OUT OF].

The president also announced efforts to eliminate [WHICHEVER TERRORIST GROUP HAS BEEN IN THE NEWS LATELY] that will involve [SOME FORM OF COLLATERAL DAMAGE THAT ULTIMATELY BECOMES THE PERFECT RECRUITING TOOL FOR SAID TERRORIST GROUP].

The White House defended the [THING WE WOULD NEVER DO TO A EUROPEAN COUNTRY] by pointing to the [LONG LIST OF HUMANITARIAN VIOLATIONS] committed by [COUNTRY WHOSE SLIDE INTO AUTHORITARIANISM WAS ALMOST ENTIRELY OUR FAULT], while conveniently ignoring the [OTHER LONG LIST OF HUMANITARIAN VIOLATIONS] committed by [EQUALLY BARBARIC REGIME THAT JUST HAPPENS TO BE A STRATEGIC US ALLY].

The new war in [COUNTRY THE UNITED STATES HAS BEEN BEEFING WITH FOR YEARS] had eerie parallels to the war in [OTHER COUNTRY THAT THE UNITED STATES HAD BEEN BEEFING WITH FOR YEARS], further ratcheting tensions in [REGION THAT THE US INTENTIONALLY DESTABILIZED SOME TIME IN THE MID-TWENTIETH CENTURY SO THAT AN OIL TYCOON IN TEXAS COULD BUY HIMSELF AN EVEN BIGGER RANCH].

The [BOMBINGS ANY SENSIBLE AMERICAN DIDN’T ASK FOR, ESPECIALLY CONSIDERING THAT DIPLOMACY WAS STILL VERY MUCH ON THE TABLE] were praised by [WHICHEVER PARTY IS CURRENTLY IN CHARGE, PLUS THE MORE HAWKISH WACKOS FROM THE OTHER PARTY] while being roundly criticized by [PEOPLE WHO KEEP BEING IGNORED DESPITE CORRECTLY PREDICTING THE DISASTROUS OUTCOMES OF THESE FOREVER WARS, TIME AND TIME AGAIN, LIKE MILITARY CONFLICT CASSANDRAS].

The [ACTIONS THAT THE PRESIDENT SHOULD BE IMPEACHED FOR, BUT WON’T BE] were particularly egregious considering that, during the previous election, the president had explicitly campaigned on not starting a war with [COUNTRY WE’RE STARTING A WAR WITH]. The new war comes amid the ongoing war in [OTHER COUNTRY THE PRESIDENT HAD PLEDGED TO END THE WAR IN BUT HADN’T].

Stock prices rose for [DEFENSE COMPANY WHOSE EXECUTIVES CAN’T HELP BUT LICK THEIR LIPS A LITTLE BIT EVERY TIME A COUNTRY GETS INVADED] while lawmakers on Capitol Hill debated whether to cut funding for [SOCIAL PROGRAM WE COULD EASILY AFFORD IF WE WEREN’T GIVING AWAY SO MUCH TAXPAYER MONEY TO WEAPONS DEALERS THAT GET ERECTIONS EVERY TIME THEY HEAR THE WORDS “SECTARIAN VIOLENCE”].

At a press conference the day after the [MILITARY ACTION THAT’S VIRTUALLY GUARANTEED TO BITE US IN THE ASS SOME TIME IN THE NEAR FUTURE], the president insisted that the [WAR THAT TWENTY-THIRD-CENTURY HISTORIANS WILL POINT TO AS THE BEGINNING OF THE END OF AMERICA’S LEADERSHIP ON THE GLOBAL STAGE] would [VAGUE PROMISE ABOUT KEEPING AMERICANS SAFE], saying “[A PHRASE SO ORWELLIAN YOU COULD SWEAR IT WAS LIFTED WORD-FOR-WORD FROM 1984].”"]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Author and activist Cory Doctorow joins us to discuss The Internet Con, his call to reclaim internet control from Big Tech. From locked-down platforms to the illusion of choice online, Cory lays out how interoperability can break corporate monopolies-and why reshaping the digital landscape starts with empowering users to leave, remix, and reimagine the internet on their own terms.

Grab your copy of The Internet Con: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3035-the-internet-con

This conversation was recorded on 10/31/2023. Watch the full video recording at: https://archive.org/details/the-internet-con

<blockquote>Join us for a virtual book talk with author Cory Doctorow about THE INTERNET CON, the disassembly manual we need to take back our internet.

Resources shared:

Chat https://ia801705.us.archive.org/7/items/the-internet-con/The%20Internet%20Con.txt
The Internet Con https://www.versobooks.com/products/3035-the-internet-con

About The Internet Con
When the tech platforms promised a future of "connection," they were lying. They said their "walled gardens" would keep us safe, but those were prison walls.

The platforms locked us into their systems and made us easy pickings, ripe for extraction. Twitter, Facebook and other Big Tech platforms hard to leave by design. They hold hostage the people we love, the communities that matter to us, the audiences and customers we rely on. The impossibility of staying connected to these people after you delete your account has nothing to do with technological limitations: it's a business strategy in service to commodifying your personal life and relationships.

We can - we must - dismantle the tech platforms. In The Internet Con, Cory Doctorow explains how to seize the means of computation, by forcing Silicon Valley to do the thing it fears most: interoperate. Interoperability will tear down the walls between technologies, allowing users leave platforms, remix their media, and reconfigure their devices without corporate permission.

Interoperability is the only route to the rapid and enduring annihilation of the platforms. The Internet Con is the disassembly manual we need to take back our internet.</blockquote>

Check out all of the Future Knowledge episodes at https://archive.org/details/future-knowledge "]]></description>
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