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2 years

Excited to announce that my first book, How Hitchens Can Save the Left: Rediscovering Fearless Liberalism in an Age of Counter-Enlightenment, will be published by @PitchstoneBooks on Feb. 14. You can preorder it here:

How Hitchens Can Save the Left: Rediscovering Fearless Liberalism in an Age of Counter-Enlightenment

www.amazon.com

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Matt Johnson

@mattjj89

11 months

One of the strangest left-wing pathologies is the absolute conviction that non-Western people have no agency

Owen Jones

@owenjonesjourno

11 months

Oh, and by the way, it wasn't actually Hamas who introduced the law banning homosexuality in Gaza. Guess who it was? The British Empire. "Same-sex sexual activity is prohibited in Gaza under the British Mandate Criminal Code Ordinance 1936."

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Imagine lying on this scale for a living

Bret Weinstein

@BretWeinstein

1 year

“Don’t take mRNA vaccines” is not medical advice. It’s survival advice.

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Matt Johnson

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Christopher Hitchens once said the fatwa against Rushdie was a simultaneous death and life sentence. For decades, he has faced it with unimaginable courage and decency, and he’s faced it on our behalf. Please make it through.

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1 year

Perhaps it was published this month because the author dedicated a lot of time and energy to producing a careful, unbiased evaluation of the evidence — something professional gun-jumping, hot take-spewing grifters like Weinstein forgot how to do long ago

Bret Weinstein

@BretWeinstein

1 year

Why would Quillette publish this lab leak takedown in Aug ‘23? It’s not argument for a natural origin of COVID. It’s an exercise in pretending there’s still lots of room for reasonable people to disagree—a defibrillator for a bad hypothesis that must periodically be reanimated.

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Matt Johnson

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7 years

Just finished this excellent little book by @CHSommers . Strangely reasonable for a "known fascist"

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Matt Johnson

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11 months

Hitchens also said the degeneration of the movement for Palestinian statehood into the “theocratic and thanatocratic hell of Hamas” was one of the most depressing political spectacles of his lifetime

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Matt Johnson

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1 year

@LibertyTemen Yeah, two plus two appeared to equal four in 2021, but every right-thinking person knows the answer is five in 2023

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Matt Johnson

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7 months

There’s something truly nauseating about cloaking your apologia for imperialist dictatorships and their useful idiots in the language of love, peace, and understanding

James Bloodworth

@J_Bloodworth

7 months

Shilling for fascism for clicks and money

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Matt Johnson

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5 years

If you actually give a damn about the worst forms of inequality in the world, Bill Gates is *not your enemy*

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Matt Johnson

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1 year

An imperialist dictator launched an unprovoked, devastating war against a neighboring democracy. That’s why people support Ukraine so strongly. Obscurantist messages like this will be remembered for decades to come for their sheer moral confusion and stupidity

Vivek Ramaswamy

@VivekGRamaswamy

1 year

Ukraine-ism is now a new religion. Kyiv is the Vatican, Zelensky is the pope, and career politicians in both parties are the new faithful. It’s sad that they’ll make a pilgrimage halfway around the world while ignoring the invasion across our own southern border right here at

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Matt Johnson

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7 years

@JeremyClarkson Posted right after he officially became an American:

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Matt Johnson

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2 years

My latest for @Quillette argues that it's time to consider whether @FukuyamaFrancis was right after all:

Fukuyama’s Victory

Liberal democracy has again proved itself capable of overcoming its internal challenges and contradictions.

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Matt Johnson

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1 year

Funny coming from a guy whose endless spew of conspiratorial bullshit feeds the hyper-paranoid and increasingly widespread conviction that the most important Western institutions are irredeemably corrupt

Bret Weinstein

@BretWeinstein

1 year

I have hope. But we are going to have to fight. We must defend the West at any cost. It is the hill we must be ready to die on.

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Matt Johnson

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3 years

@mtracey So you consider overthrowing Saddam Hussein legally and morally interchangeable with overthrowing the democratically elected government of Ukraine. Got it.

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Matt Johnson

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5 years

A reminder that @RubinReport holds right- and left-wingers to completely different standards on free speech. From an article for @AreoMagazine in August 2018 @HPluckrose

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Matt Johnson

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7 months

The level of pathological stupidity, intellectual laziness, and journalistic malfeasance on the know-nothing populist right is breathtaking

Candace Owens

@RealCandaceO

7 months

I’m starting to wonder if Zelensky’s goal is to just eliminate all men of a fighting age in the country altogether. Why else continue this?

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Matt Johnson

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5 years

My latest in @Quillette argues that you shouldn't smear people who have devoted their lives to addressing the most serious problems our species faces

Gates Derangement Syndrome

Isn’t this a debate worth having without an avalanche of bad faith and scornful remarks about how we “can’t even trust Bill Gates to put his desire for a better world above his self-preservational...

quillette.com

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Matt Johnson

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6 years

My latest in @QuilletteM argues against the fashionable claim that, despite all the data (and historical evidence) that suggest otherwise, the religious impulse remains as strong as ever

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Matt Johnson

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6 months

As @FukuyamaFrancis explains, anyone who thinks a second Trump term will be just like the first hasn’t been paying attention. An extremely dark future awaits. Time to wake up and stop it

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Matt Johnson

@mattjj89

6 months

If you want to see a prototype of a JBP tweet Just read this one Which takes some banal annoyance in modern life And inflates it to a harbinger of totalitarianism And is spaced out With weird syntax Which makes its dark but confusing implications Hit a little Harder

Dr Jordan B Peterson

@jordanbpeterson

6 months

If you want to see a prototype of the coming surveillance state Just spend a few hours in any commercial airport Government/corporate collusion to tyrannize theatrically All in the name of an illusory "security" But plenty of shopping (Note: The plenty won't last) The rest

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Matt Johnson

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8 years

The 10 worst colleges for free speech

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Matt Johnson

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3 years

@shadihamid What planet does the man live on?

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Matt Johnson

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6 months

This guy is just humiliating himself now. Sad!

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Matt Johnson

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6 years

ICYM my latest for @ArcDigi : To people who believe they’re standing between civilization and the “War Machine’s promotion of militarism and imperialism” ( @ggreenwald , @jeremyscahill ), getting out of Syria is an article of faith

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Matt Johnson

@mattjj89

5 years

So...the lyrics are more profound or what?

Whale Songs Are Getting Deeper

Scientists have theories as to why—some worrisome, some hopeful, all involving humans.

www.theatlantic.com

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Matt Johnson

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5 months

Many self-appointed guardians of the West have elected to stay neutral — or have effectively taken the wrong side — in the greatest confrontation between the West and its enemies since the Cold War. My latest, no paywall. Link in bio

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Matt Johnson

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10 months

It’s bad enough when leftists treat Hamas as the authentic voice of the Palestinians, but it’s an ugly and dangerous farce when they lavish the organization with praise. My latest for @thedailybeast

Left-Wing Defenses of Hamas Are an Insult to Palestinians

The fanatical terror organization does not speak for all Palestinians, which is why it’s wrong and bigoted for leftist activists to try to legitimize Hamas’ horrific crimes.

www.thedailybeast.com

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11 months

Looking forward to this. Rushdie is one of the great literary, intellectual, and moral heroes of our time

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9 months

The avalanche of bad faith directed at @shadihamid -- prominent editors calling him a "terrorist shill," think tank presidents describing him as a Hamas propagandist, etc. -- is genuinely shocking

Shadi Hamid

@shadihamid

9 months

It's sad to see @jpodhoretz so unable to control his anger online. He's a grown man and the editor-in-chief of a well regarded magazine. It's just lazy. It's also a sure sign that you've lost the debate and have literally nothing of substance to say.

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Matt Johnson

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7 months

So the nurse in this story expressed her frustration with anti-vaxxers a few seconds before "indicating she was aware of many people injured and killed" by mRNA vaccines? If you're going to lie, at least do it plausibly

Bret Weinstein

@BretWeinstein

7 months

I sat next to a nurse (older) on a flight. I asked her about her experience during the Covid crisis. She said that “anti-vaxxers” had made things tough. Then she stopped herself and said “of course don’t know if you might be an anti-vaxxer” I said “I wasn’t one, but the Covid

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7 months

Watching this clown spew bullshit on such a monumental scale so gravely and sanctimoniously and arrogantly is something to behold

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@mattjj89

7 months

Weinstein says a “credible” answer to the first question is: 17 million. 17 million deaths caused by the COVID vaccines. He’s a lunatic.

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Matt Johnson

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4 months

Shouldn't @bariweiss have a bit more to say about the moral and intellectual collapse of the movement she said we should all listen to a few years ago? My latest for @thedailybeast

Is Bari Weiss Embarrassed by the Intellectual Dark Web?

A 2018 “New York Times” profile gave a cadre of anti-woke commentators a mainstream signal boost. But many of them now appear to be completely nuts.

www.thedailybeast.com

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Matt Johnson

@mattjj89

1 year

Vaclav Havel on "what Russia's accusation of 'NATO encirclement' really meant: that Russia should continue to dictate the future of three states that it had forcefully incorporated into the Soviet Union..." Stellar piece by @OscarClarke17 for @Quillette

When Havel Met Biden

Far from being a project of US imperialism, NATO expansion has been a process driven by small and vulnerable countries.

quillette.com

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Matt Johnson

@mattjj89

10 years

@SamHarrisOrg i don't often agree with chomsky, but i think he's right about zizek...

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Matt Johnson

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6 years

Excited to be published in @QuilletteM , a magazine that liberals only read in "porn mode" (aka incognito mode) @tamler @peez

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Matt Johnson

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2 years

"Hitchens believed in freedom of speech in an arena where the unhindered exchange of competing ideas can battle it out. But he did not believe that charity should extend to totalitarian regimes" Superb review of my new book by @michaeljtotten , @Quillette

The Liberal Internationalist

A fine new book argues that the contemporary Left could learn a lot from the life and work of the late polemicist Christopher Hitchens.

quillette.com

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Matt Johnson

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11 months

Remember when Jeremy Corbyn said his "friends" in Hamas are dedicated to "long-term peace and social justice and political justice in the whole region"?

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3 years

@shadihamid “…we invented this story that Putin is highly aggressive and he’s principally responsible for this crisis in Ukraine.”

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Matt Johnson

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1 year

I missed this excellent piece by @NickCohen4 , which summarizes the selective and self-serving ways in which right-wing populists invoke the will of "the people." The "he" in this passage refers to @GoodwinMJ

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Matt Johnson

@mattjj89

5 years

To all the people who sanctimoniously lectured us about journalistic ethics / told us the poor members of Antifa were actually the victims of a brutal fascist hammer assault: Maybe you have an agenda, too. (Yes, they’re all assholes. No, I’m not defending the Proud Boys. Etc.)

Cathy Young 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱

@CathyYoung63

5 years

Kinda silly that a scuffle over a hammer is being analyzed like the Kennedy assassination film, but FWIW, this looks like a pretty definitive view of what happened.

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Matt Johnson

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6 years

My first article for @AreoMagazine : What the intellectual dark web can learn from Orwell

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Matt Johnson

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8 months

Putin is a corrupt autocrat with utter contempt for democracy who has massacred tens of thousands of people to satisfy his vain imperial ambitions, but Jordan Peterson says he's on the right side of the culture wars. My latest for @thedailybeast

Jordan Peterson’s Astounding Ignorance on Russia and Ukraine

The self-help guru and right-wing culture warrior continues to get pretty much everything wrong about Putin’s war of aggression.

www.thedailybeast.com

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Matt Johnson

@mattjj89

6 months

Moral imbecile

Joseph Hirsch

@josephhirsch5

6 months

Judith Butler describing the October 7 massacre as armed resistance: “We can have different views about Hamas as a political party, we can have different views about armed resistance. But [...] the uprising of October 7th was an act of armed resistance.[...] This was an uprising”

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1 year

What A Fucking Crank

Dr Jordan B Peterson

@jordanbpeterson

1 year

There is no such thing As Gay conversion Therapy It's all part of the Big Lie

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1 year

It’s depressing that so many people think *this* is the only principled left-wing position you can hold on the war in Ukraine. It isn’t principled or honest — it’s a robotic refusal to confront facts that don’t conform to a boring, prepackaged worldview

Cornel West

@CornelWest

1 year

Let us not be deceived: NATO is an expanding instrument of U.S. global power that provoked Russia into a criminal invasion and occupation of Ukraine. This proxy war between the American Empire and the Russian Federation could lead to World War III. We must stop the war and war

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3 months

A juxtaposition on the timeline

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Matt Johnson

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3 years

@soursurname @SamHarrisOrg @EricTopol @BretWeinstein Please. @BretWeinstein spends hours attacking his critics (like @ydeigin ) without having them on to defend themselves.

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4 years

My brother just started listening to @verybadwizards , and he "can't believe some of the shit these guys say. How do they not get in trouble?" He's on episode 1/192 @peez @tamler

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2 years

Peterson knows a thing or two about nightmarish visions of apocalypse, as he conjures them for a living. My latest for @thedailybeast

Jordan Peterson’s Constant State of Delusional Panic

The self-help guru and right-wing culture warrior sees would-be global dictators around every corner. Now he’s freaking out about an accounting firm’s anodyne report.

www.thedailybeast.com

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7 years

@SamHarrisOrg Not even 30 seconds in: "When you support things like a Muslim ban." Unbelievable

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This guy claims to be the victim of a McCarthyite smear campaign when people accuse him of being an apologist for Putin (which he is) Then he says people are traitors for…waving Ukrainian flags

David Sacks

@DavidSacks

5 months

I became a U.S. citizen in 1982. As part of that process, my family took an oath of loyalty to the U.S. That oath also required us to forswear loyalty to any other country. I always remember that when I see Americans waving foreign flags.

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5 years

These people are great at creating new Pete Buttigieg fans

DJ Judd

@DJJudd

5 years

Pete Buttigieg has been interrupted four times here in Dallas by protesters. One yelled “Marriage is between a man and a woman!” Another yelled “Repent!” After the 4th, Buttigieg continued, “The moment I packed my bags for Afghanistan, to defend that man’s freedom of speech...”

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Matt Johnson

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4 years

My latest in @AreoMagazine , in which I take issue with the claim (made by @shadihamid , @sullydish , and others) that genuine atheists don't actually exist and consider the implications of that view for the future of pluralism in the United States

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7 months

I haven't looked into Bret for a while, but wow. Who considers *this* evidence of *anything*? How can anyone with such a large platform be so reckless and stupid?

Matt Johnson

@mattjj89

7 months

So the nurse in this story expressed her frustration with anti-vaxxers a few seconds before "indicating she was aware of many people injured and killed" by mRNA vaccines? If you're going to lie, at least do it plausibly

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9 years

@SamHarrisOrg @MaryamNamazie Maryam just wanted to exchange speeches. Sam wasn't "interrupting." He was attempting to have a conversation...

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Matt Johnson

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3 years

Insisting that a few anecdotes on Twitter constitute evidence that people should be concerned about "terrifying" adverse effects from the vaccines is fantastically irresponsible for someone with a platform as large as Weinstein's. My latest for @ArcDigi :

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4 months

@sspencer_smb @bariweiss @thedailybeast He didn’t go insane

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11 months

"This war is a war of values, a war of narratives -- and one side really is in the right and one side really is in the wrong." Powerful, clear-eyed essay by @DJtotheS for @merionwest

The Russo-Ukrainian War: A Very Simple Conflict

“The Rada’s final decree is a reproach to all those who think of Ukraine as nothing more than an appendage of Russia, without a culture and a history of its own.” The Final Decree It is January 22,...

merionwest.com

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7 years

Loved this metaphor: Our civil society was falling asleep at the wheel, and Trump was the oncoming semi truck that jolted us awake @davidfrum

David Frum - Presidents Day in the Trumpocracy

Recorded: February 19th, 2018David Frum is a senior editor at The Atlantic, author and former presidential speech writer and author of many books, including ...

www.youtube.com

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"If Putin-friendly 'populist conservatives' are the equivalent of Castro-friendly, Cold War-era progressives, that’s quite a self-own—and a self-reveal." Excellent essay by @CathyYoung63 for the @UnPopulistMag (and @JoinPersuasion )

The Right Can't Love America Because it Hates Liberalism

That's why it is throwing in its lot with Putin and other authoritarians abroad

www.theunpopulist.net

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4 years

Bolton may want to reflect on his role in perpetuating the insular and paranoid ideas that have animated the president's populist assault on the international system that the United States has built over the past 70 years. My latest for @BulwarkOnline :

John Bolton's Contribution to 'America First'

As Bolton's blockbuster book blasts Trump, he may want to consider how he contributed to the president's populist assault on the U.S.-led international system.

www.thebulwark.com

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ICYM my recent article for @ArcDigi : "Unlike the liberals who want everyone around them to pass a battery of ideological purity tests, I can't cut the Trump supporters out of my life. If I did, I'd be forced to disown half my family."

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2 years

My first book, How Hitchens Can Save the Left: Rediscovering Fearless Liberalism in an Age of Counter-Enlightenment, is now available! @PitchstoneBooks

How Hitchens Can Save the Left: Rediscovering Fearless Liberalism in an Age of Counter-Enlightenment

www.amazon.com

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11 months

Just a periodic reminder that many of the most “progressive” voices on foreign policy are actually reactionary apologists for imperialism

Sophie Fullerton

@florida_sophia

11 months

Tonight, while sharing a stage with two former Russia-state media employees, Cornell West parroted the Kremlin narrative that NATO & US imperialism “provoked” Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. This “Peace in Ukraine” event, hosted by CODEPINK, platformed zero Ukrainian voices.

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THREAD: Niall Ferguson ( @nfergus ) recently wrote a bizarre essay lamenting what he calls the descent into "late Soviet America." @CathyYoung63 wrote an excellent response in @BulwarkOnline : Here's my take in @UnPopulistMag : (1/8)

Niall Ferguson: The Intellectual Underwriter of Trump's American Carnage Idea

Hatred of the woke is causing this hawk to wildly exaggerate America's decline and make absurd comparisons with the Soviet Union

www.theunpopulist.net

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5 months

. @anthonyLfisher on the ludicrous notion -- which some people evidently still believe -- that Musk's acquisition of Twitter is all about free speech @thedailybeast

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7 months

Weinstein says a “credible” answer to the first question is: 17 million. 17 million deaths caused by the COVID vaccines. He’s a lunatic.

Tucker Carlson

@TuckerCarlson

7 months

How many people died from the COVID shot? Do vaccines actually cause autism? Steve Kirsch has looked at the data.

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4 years

@clairlemon The right-wing version of Gates Derangement Syndrome

Gates Derangement Syndrome

Isn’t this a debate worth having without an avalanche of bad faith and scornful remarks about how we “can’t even trust Bill Gates to put his desire for a better world above his self-preservational...

quillette.com

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1 year

Ghastly stuff. Next stop: the gulag

Konstantin Kisin

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This country is fucked.

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“If the mass of people felt prosperous and secure, few outside the left would care if the rich got richer or Johnson got away with cheating. In today’s Britain, millions are enraged.” @NickCohen4 on the context of the Tory collapse

The death of Tory England: It’s not murder, it’s suicide

Killed by the failure to meet ordinary "conservative" aspirations for a decent life

nickcohen.substack.com

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5 years

Good point @CathyYoung63 made in her recent @Quillette piece about Rubin. I made a similar observation in @SpliceToday a year and a half ago: @MUGGER1955

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@CathyYoung63 It's also absurd to write a treatise on the threats to Western institutions without mentioning the populist / authoritarian right.

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2 years

"Pinker knows these movements aren’t indestructible. They are not a boot stamping on a human face forever, but collapse eventually under the weight of their own absurdities." Very good piece by @NickCohen4

The conservative war on free speech

The hopeful life and wretched death of Claudia Gavrilovna Popova during a previous age of extremes should speak to us now. Popova lived in Siberia in the years before the Russian revolution. She was...

www.spectator.co.uk

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This is the future that awaits us if Trump returns to the Oval Office. Powerful, ominous review of @JacobHeilbrunn 's book America Last (which I just ordered) by @JeffreyHerf in @Quillette

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3 months

Actually, you’ve just moved to the right because that’s where your audience is. I don’t think there’s a single “heterodox” thinker who hasn’t made this transition

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

3 months

One question I get a lot is "What explains your asymmetric focus on Democrats and the Left?" The short answer, after some soul searching and introspection, is simply this: "The Gaslighting of Experts." I see the Republican party fighting the experts they oppose. I don't see

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When Martin Amis wrote Martin Amis into the scene. Terrible news today, huge loss

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11 months

My latest essay. It’s a doozy, but no paywall. If you’d like to read it, kindly click on the link in my bio

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7 years

"Pavlovian Occidentalism" has to be the most economical - and perfect - way to describe today's far left @NickCohen4

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Many “heterodox” intellectuals are political dilettantes who credulously embrace obvious right-wing con artists and hacks because a Democrat happens to be in the Oval Office and they’ve convinced themselves that they’re dissidents in an imaginary dictatorship

Bret Weinstein

@BretWeinstein

1 year

A republic, if you can keep it. Oh, and you’ll have to pick a flavor. Would you like democratic or banana?

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@ArthurCDent Plus, his claim that the essay is an appeal to bothsiderism is ludicrous. It makes a clear case that the natural origin theory is more plausible on the available evidence. Aside from being chronically full of shit, Weinstein apparently struggles with basic reading comprehension

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@mattjj89

7 months

Actually, you don't. You're completely full of shit.

Dr Jordan B Peterson

@jordanbpeterson

7 months

There have definitely been peace talks and offers rejected by the Biden admin. I know this first hand. @TuckerCarlson

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@mattjj89

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The Ivermectin story dealt this guy’s reputation as a “sensemaker” a mortal blow, so naturally he’s stumbling around the track taking victory laps until he pukes

Bret Weinstein

@BretWeinstein

1 year

The Ivermectin story completes a picture of the racket our system has become. The media, government, academy, Pharma and Tech teamed up against the people—exacerbating a man made disaster and demonizing resisters in order to mass-administer a deadly, ineffective, unnecessary shot

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Matt Johnson

@mattjj89

3 years

@Shane91216918 @ArcDigi @clairlemon Do you consider this a responsible way to talk about adverse effects?

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Matt Johnson

@mattjj89

4 months

This is the worst Beach Boys cover ever

Dr Jordan B Peterson

@jordanbpeterson

4 months

Fun fun fun with the bloody inheritors of the resentful spirit of Cain Communism, in all its glory:

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Matt Johnson

@mattjj89

7 years

All you needed to say: "This is off the record." Pretty basic stuff for a White House communications director. Great hire, @realDonaldTrump

Anthony Scaramucci

@Scaramucci

7 years

I made a mistake in trusting in a reporter. It won't happen again.

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Matt Johnson

@mattjj89

9 years

Nice to see someone (Melissa Click) fired for suppressing free speech. Usually you lose your job for encouraging it

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Matt Johnson

@mattjj89

1 year

What a deeply unserious and cheap thing to say. The Taliban harbored al-Qaeda, as @mehdirhasan obviously knows

Mehdi Hasan

@mehdirhasan

1 year

There were no Afghans or Iraqis on those planes.

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Matt Johnson

@mattjj89

3 years

@shadihamid lol

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Matt Johnson

@mattjj89

1 year

What an amazing shock that nobody could have anticipated

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Matt Johnson

@mattjj89

1 year

@stillgray @Emmyjewel Really? This is your response? You know the clip was taken out of context. If you had a shred of decency or intellectual honesty, you'd delete it and tell your followers why. Of course you won't.

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Matt Johnson

@mattjj89

3 years

"The secular republic with the separation of powers," Hitchens wrote, "is still the approximate model, whether acknowledged or not, of several democratic revolutions that are in progress or impending." My latest for @AreoMagazine @IonaItalia

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Matt Johnson

@mattjj89

6 months

Sometimes a single sentence tells you all you need to know. Great but disturbing piece by @buffsoldier_96

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Matt Johnson

@mattjj89

6 months

The Ukrainians would have fought — and many European countries would have supported them — with or without the United States. Many Americans have this weird childish belief that their country is the only one with agency.

David Sacks

@DavidSacks

6 months

I’m an American. Ukraine is not our war. And if we had stayed out of it, there would have been no war.

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Matt Johnson

@mattjj89

7 years

@BryanLowry3 The degree may be worthless, but hey, at least it's easy to "keep in tough"

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Matt Johnson

@mattjj89

6 months

While Trump is a uniquely malignant force, his takeover of the GOP never could have succeeded without the McConnells of the world. My latest, no paywall. Link in bio

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Matt Johnson

@mattjj89

10 months

What's the implication here? That the United States and other Western countries *wanted* a war in Gaza for all the refugees it would create? Musk is just mindlessly regurgitating every bigoted and paranoid theory on offer for his new constituency of right-wing trolls and dolts

Elon Musk

@elonmusk

10 months

This has now happened several times

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Matt Johnson

@mattjj89

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Wow, this is hideous bullshit. The Spanish Civil War cemented Orwell’s socialism and his hatred of Stalinism at the same time. He took a fascist bullet in the throat and despised fascism to the end. I know Cernovich is an unscrupulous moron, but some lies are just so grotesque

Cernovich

@Cernovich

1 year

George Orwell was a socialist who as a foolish young man, victimized by propaganda, fought against General Franco’s forces. Orwell admitted later in life it was all a lie. Communists were raping and crucifying nuns. Western media covered it up. General Franco was the good guy.

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Matt Johnson

@mattjj89

7 years

Sunday editorial for @CJOnline : It has never been more important for Moran to oppose his party

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