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America's Next Motorcycle Philosopher?
He's a bestselling writer with a penchant for bikes, but "Archedelia" author Matthew Crawford offers a new kind of wisdom. A Substack Q&A
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Maintain Your Brain
A few thoughts on the arrival of a new Fahrenheit 451 future. Plus, a few mild site changes
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Nailed It! Commenter of the Week
Meet Craazyman: “Craazyman is the fake name for a Racket subscriber who is a nobody by standards of public life. Just like you, dear reader! But we both…
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Listen to This Article: America's Intellectual "Bloodbath"
Narrated Version | If a censored tree falls in the forest, do we still have to misquote it?
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Ronna McDaniel and MSNBC: Ultimate Schadenfreude?
Surely this is the funniest media story of the year?
Mar 28
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The Peacock Joins The Smear Campaign
If "misinformation" reporter Brandy Zadrozny is the best hit artist NBC News has left on its roster, it might be time to shutter the network
Mar 27
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Twitter Files Extra: How the "Censorship Industrial Complex" Case Was Built
Three separate investigations took over a year to nail down the case that government agencies were improperly censoring by proxy. Forced by courts to…
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Listen to This Article: Meet the AI-Censored? Naked Capitalism
Narrated Version | Google provides an early, scary test case for mechanized suppression by threatening a popular economics site with demonetization
Mar 26
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Listen to This Article: "It's Not About Trump": American CJ Hopkins, Charged Again in Germany, Describes Global Censorship Effort
Narrated Version | Acquitted on German hate speech charges in January, American playwright CJ Hopkins is being charged again for the same offense. He…
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Listen to This Article: Why Government is Always the Most Dangerous Source of Misinformation
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Listen to This Article: The First Amendment Takes a Beating in the Supreme Court
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Mar 25
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Transcript: America This Week, Episode 81,"Swimming in the Deep State is Kind of Awesome"
Walter and Matt go full Mystery Science Theater on the year's most unintentionally funny video editorial. Also, John Cheever's "The Swimmer"
Mar 24
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