When Andrew Neil schools someone it’s always spot on. 🔥

I'll be on stage with Catherine Rampell from The Washington Post, Josh Hammer from Newsweek and Michael C Moynihan from The Fifth Column 🖐 discussing the implications of the 2024 election and Biden vs. Trump's record. Then audience Q&A after!

I reviewed Judith Butler’s new book for Fairer Disputations. The many mistakes and misrepresentations were no surprise, but I was gobsmacked to discover plagiarism.
fairerdisputations.org/judith-butlers…

Paging Michael C Moynihan - you were right all along! Cc: Kmele 🖐 Matt Welch

A very fun, very lively debate

What I admire and respect about Noam Dworman, the owner of The Comedy Cellar, is that he is a serious champion of free speech and a great interviewer & interlocutor who gives people he disagrees with time and space to explain their POV.

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From Russia's largest circulation newspaper: on Twitter, Elon Musk slammed the American government for attempting to censor Twitter (which you were likely unaware of because the Russian government has succeeded in banning Twitter)

No mention of Navalny in Russia's highest circulation newspaper. But there's a piece about how the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan was great, built all sorts of infrastructure 'for free,' & 35 yrs later is still 'preventing people from starving to death' aif.ru/politics/world…

Alexey Navalny Police have detained several people at a makeshift gathering in memory of @Navalny in Moscow, as others throw snow & shout 'shame!'

Former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 says he can’t support Joe Biden for a simple reason: the president cannot beat Trump. Michael C Moynihan spoke to Yang about the 2024 election and what he calls the “coronation” of the weak incumbent. thefp.pub/49GNfBP

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The Capitalists will [donate] the rope with which we will hang them. Goldman Sachs gave $12 million to a lunatic pro-North Korea outfit
nypost.com/2024/01/17/met…

“We now know that so much of what we were told in those years was, if not wrong, certainly debatable. But debate was not only discouraged—it was shut down.”

Michael C Moynihan and Joe Nocera on “Why We Still Need to Talk About America's Covid Failures.” thefp.pub/4aZc7WG

Opened Geezer Butler’s memoir to a random page and was immediately convinced of its Pulitzer worthiness

1994 > 2024