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It doesn't matter, if you can insert a political angle, in anything, these days, it sells because everyone is buying. It does not matter if it's imagined or r
by mc32 4y ago
It doesn't matter, if you can insert a political angle, in anything, these days, it sells because everyone is buying. It does not matter if it's imagined or real.
- hirundo 4y ago"Let's analyze <cultural artifact> through <the current zeitgeist lens>" seems like a useful template to update on the value of both the artifact and the lens. In this case the lens seems to distort more than clarify the artifact.
- BMc2020 4y agoI like that framing. Reminds me of the scene in Good Will Hunting where he tells the jock what he's going to believe in what order just by listing the textbooks for his upcoming courses.
- anigbrowl 4y agoMichael Anton, a former National Security Council staffer in the Trump White House, is a lecturer in politics at Hillsdale College’s Washington, DC, campus and a senior fellow of the Claremont Institute. That's pretty much what this is. A look at the top page of the website suggests it's basically a conservative op-ed magazine.