BREAKING: BuzzFeed will use ChatGPT to create content instead of writers
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My dear friend Daniel Miller, literary editor of in his Compact debut, on NY's new statues in "Babylon-on-Hudson" compactmag.com/article/babylo "A symbol of new forms of power—and cruelty."
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“When a justice system that seeks to quell bloodletting is called into question—as it has been in recent years, not least by #MeToo—the urge for sacrificial propitiation resurfaces.”
Daniel Miller on our new gods, which demand sacrifice
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“Free trade and financialization have led to the breakdown of the middle class, the hollowing out of the American interior, and an epidemic of deaths of despair.”
@thechrisbuskirk, author of a new book from @EncounterBooks, makes his @compactmag_ debut
compactmag.com/article/how-re
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Despite the laudatory reviews, “She Said” was shut out of the Oscar nominations. My essay for on why the film was so unconvincing:
“Conventional conservatives have mastered a Trumpian cultural vernacular while ditching Trumpism’s authentically populist dimensions.”
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Will ChatGPT decimate white-collar jobs? Maybe—but as argues, many email caste "bullshit jobs" are a political patronage scheme unresponsive to market forces. AI makes this situation more obvious, but won't necessarily change it.
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"Kersey said he was told the department didn’t want to be held liable in a 'use of force' situation involving someone in the LGBTQ community." This is the Christopher Caldwell thesis on civil rights law in action.
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Grateful to live in a liberal democratic society that respects difference of opinion and rejects coercion of thought and speech.
dailysignal.com/2023/01/25/exc
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No other Senate candidate stood so firmly against recklessness in Ukraine. No other Republican office-holder has spoken so strongly in defense of Medicare and Social Security
My column with on
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"No other Senate candidate stood so firmly against recklessness in Ukraine. No other Republican office-holder has spoken so strongly in defense of Medicare and Social Security... has shown the kind of leadership needed in the Republican Party."
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On foreign policy and entitlements, has challenged the conventional views of the GOP. Watch closely. He’s charting a course for the future of the party.
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Grateful to live in a liberal democratic society that respects difference of opinion and rejects coercion of thought and speech.
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The real question isn’t whether ChatGPT spells doom for white-collar jobs, but why many of these jobs weren’t automated long ago. The answer is political, not technical.
with a revisionist take on David Graeber’s “Bullshit Jobs” thesis:
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Sohale Mortazavi [] for Compact today: "A.I. Might Not Steal Your Bullshit Job" compactmag.com/article/a-i-mi [paywall, subscribe!]: "[the] democratization of creative production might have the salutary effect of demystifying the work of much of the 'creative class'.”
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Will email jobs be automated away by A.I. programs like ChatGPT? Not if those jobs exist for reasons of patronage rather than productivity.
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If you work what labor anthropologists call a “bullshit job,” don’t worry: A.I. is unlikely to take away your livelihood anytime soon—because these jobs are maintained for political reasons.
Smart and provocative
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NEW: Many people are saying that a "suburban revolt" was why nearly lost to last year. But it's just not true.
Outcomes in NYC - which saw >50-point swing toward the GOP in Asian & Hispanic neighborhoods - were the real culprit.
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The GOP’s early oughts history of driving down U.S. wages by driving up competition with China 👇🏼
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“Free trade and financialization have led to the breakdown of the middle class, the hollowing out of the American interior, and an epidemic of deaths of despair.”
@thechrisbuskirk, author of a new book from @EncounterBooks, makes his @compactmag_ debut
compactmag.com/article/how-re
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“No party will ever perfectly represent the country class.” Interesting article
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If you’ve been a witness of or participant in groups undergoing ideological transformation in recent years, you’ve probably wondered: “how did everyone start saying/thinking this thing they didn’t think just weeks ago?” This essay offers a novel answer:
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The wammin idol is a stone’s throw from the Farragut Monument in Madison Square Park.
Let the viewer decide.
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New podcast, including a discussion of ’s tomboy past and our trans present.
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Very interesting piece about the process of radicalization that has played out in recent years on the left and the right.
One of the many reasons I think it’s a great deal to subscribe to (you can do so now for 40% off with code COMPACTJAN).
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“Political correctness” evokes a fixed standard to which one adheres.
Becoming “woke” is more open-ended. It requires moving ever more toward an all-seeing, never-to-sleep-again state of enlightenment.
Fascinating argument from Michael Clune of @cwru
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“Political correctness” evokes a fixed standard to which one adheres.
Becoming “woke” is more open-ended. It requires moving ever more toward an all-seeing, never-to-sleep-again state of enlightenment.
Fascinating argument from Michael Clune of
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“Free trade and financialization have led to the breakdown of the middle class, the hollowing out of the American interior, and an epidemic of deaths of despair.”
, author of a new book from , makes his debut
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A new statue atop a New York City courthouse. The artist says it’s part of an “urgent and necessary cultural reckoning underway as New York reconsiders traditional representations of power in public spaces and recasts civic structures to better reflect 21st-century social mores.”
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"Today, the boyish girl is in danger of being told she was 'born in the wrong body,' and whisked off to a gender clinic to begin the journey from puberty blockers to breast removal to reproductive surgery and, ultimately, infertility." -
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articles become Fox hits and/or discussed by the Times/WaPo/etc. roughly once a week.
That’s what I call agenda-setting.
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"From the 1980s until 2016, Republicans sought to make US companies 'more competitive with foreign companies.' The problem was that it was never possible to drive wages low enough to compete with Chinese labor." From 's new book:
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Chris Buskirk compactmag.com/article/how-re "People who had been “neglected, ignored, and abandoned,”...elected Donald Trump in 2016 because he promised to bring back manufacturing jobs, start a massive national infrastructure program, raise wages, and protect their interests."
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Free trade and financialization have led to the breakdown of the middle class, the hollowing out of the American interior, and an epidemic of deaths of despair.
How the GOP sold out America — an excerpt from ’s new book in COMPACT.
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20 percent of the MTA's budget deficit is attributable to fare evasion (nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-mt), a cost which will eventually be borne by taxpayers and riders who experience worse service due to budget constraint. Hope that helps you understand who the harmed party is.
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What woke and QAnon share: perceptive essay on the radicalization structures driving both.
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“Far from being mindless drones, the individuals who make up radicalizing communities generate all the energy, decisions, and ideas themselves. They don’t see themselves as sheep, and they aren’t sheep.” Michael Clune on decentralized radicalization:
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“While individuals may not always—or even ever—direct the course of events, the figure—the image—of an individual leader is indispensable to social transformation.”
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Haven’t seen one of these before
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Don’t miss our latest episode: , , and discuss the trans war on Tomboys and Trump’s defense of entitlements.
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