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On Comfortable Lies and the Pain of Knowing
Truth Costs More Than Most People Are Willing to Pay
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Mike Brock
There is Only One Way Out
I’ve been re-watching Tony Gilroy’s masterpiece Andor. In the first season, the story reaches one of its most evocative moral crescendos when Andy…
Nov 13 • 
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If Morality Had Bankruptcy Lawyers: Michael Wolff, Mike Solana, and the Age of Ethical Insolvency
The Marketization of Conscience in an Age Without Shame
Nov 12 • 
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They’re Not Hiding It and It's Not Irony
The Trump administration just quietly removed a memorial to Black U.S.
Nov 11 • 
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A Letter to America
From an American with Love
Nov 11 • 
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Chuck Schumer Doesn’t Know What Time It Is
After forty days.
Nov 10 • 
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The Two Materialisms: Why I’m a Liberal
A Comprehensive Defense of the Liberal Tradition and a Case for Its Renewal
Nov 9 • 
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The Cycle Theory of Moral Cowardice
Jason Calacanis and the Sophisticated Art of Excusing Everything
Nov 8 • 
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Who’s Actually Practicing Taqiyya?
Shaun Maguire—venture capital partner, SpaceX bet winner, sophisticated bigot—wants you to know that Zohran Mamdani “comes from a culture that lies…
Nov 8 • 
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The Rule of Law, and the Failure to Defend It
A recording from Mike Brock's live video
Nov 8 • 
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The Judicial Counterrevolution
How the Supreme Court Abandoned Constitutional Governance
Nov 7 • 
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Mike Solana’s Selective Populism
There’s a new species of populism emerging from Silicon Valley: billionaires performing outrage on behalf of the people they exploit.
Nov 7 • 
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