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The Most Articulate Apologist
A Crisis Dispatch
Apr 25 • Mike Brock
Catastrophe Has Come
We are at the end of an age.
Apr 24 • Mike Brock
A Republican Judge Just Voided 2.3 Million Virginia Ballots
A Crisis Dispatch
Apr 23 • Mike Brock
We Were Paying Attention
Here's to the deluded ones. Who, it turns out, were not that.
Apr 22 • Mike Brock
How Elon Musk Thinks, and Why It Is Killing Us
The software worldview applied to a domain that is not software.
Apr 22 • Mike Brock
Apology Not Accepted, Mr. Carlson
On the difference between being misled and lying.
Apr 21 • Mike Brock
The Man Who Cannot Stop Talking About Killing
On Alex Karp and the "technological republic"
Apr 21 • Mike Brock
The Wish That Distorts
The Western left's recurring failure to tell the difference between opponents of power and agents of it.
Apr 20 • Mike Brock
On Antisemitism in Our Politics
My unvarnished thoughts on where we are.
Apr 19 • Mike Brock
The Real Honest Conversation
Andrew Wilson, Triggernometry, and the faux intellectualism of the reactionary right
Apr 19 • Mike Brock
The Positive Case For Liberalsm
Liberalism's public intellectuals need to move to the front foot.
Apr 18 • Mike Brock
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