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Tom Nichols
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So, with all the talk of Orwell, I want to point out that this is not "1984" level un-personing, but it's Soviet style denunciation. It's not even ambitious or interesting
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A thread on how much you should be worried. You guys always tease me about not letting you panic. Don't panic. Panic is a useless emotion. But after yesterday, you
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This is a red flag for U.S. civil-military relations. In part, it is the price we're paying for too much Soviet-style valorizing of military service including public signals and rituals
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I realize I am starting generational warfare by criticizing this piece today in @TheAtlantic about how the "Simpsons" life is no longer attainable, but the writer just didn't watch enough
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Senate Republicans bear the responsibility for not removing him when they had the chance, and they are holding their breath and hoping they can get to January 20 without Trump
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Liberal friends, over the past few years many of you said "I plan to be consistent on basic principle when it's our guy in office!" Well, here's your chance. If
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So, this is a teaching story I often tell on the road, and a kind of teaching we should get back to. In 1985, after working my way through college
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You need to read this great piece by @RuleandRuin about how the GOP got where it is.You should read it because it answers the important questions.1. What happened?2. How could
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A short thread about cultural resentment. I am old enough to remember when rural and small-town people were considered virtuous upright upright, and city dwellers were considered diseased bags of
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I'm so f*cking tired of people going to rural Wisconsin like anthropologists on a field trip. Take those same people from Oshkosh and put them on a bus to Boston
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So, here's a thread on missile defense, since the U.S. is trumpeting shooting down an ICBM from an AEGIS. This is about why I was okay with SDI in the
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For the people who think I only started to wrestle with this "experts in a democracy" problem just a few years ago, this is from a book review I wrote
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