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From ‘American this Week’ EP#87 🇺🇸

Matt Taibbi & Walter Kirn on free speech and the importance of varied perspectives.

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The online censorship enterprise is real, a threat to the very foundations of our discourse and one of the most important issues of our time. And yes, it's the basis of a Supreme Court case after working its way up through the lower courts. Having my credibility challenged for…

🧵 The censorship boomerang 🪃 strikes again!

Thomas Chatterton Williams, in his new Atlantic profile of Walter Kirn, is “baffled” at Kirn’s criticism of growing digital censorship.

He calls the charge that government agencies and third party groups coerced and collaborated with social…

(100) THE BULLSHIT - by Walter Kirn - Unbound walterkirn.substack.com/p/the-bullshit

(100) THE POWER AND THE SILENCE - by Walter Kirn - Unbound walterkirn.substack.com/p/the-power-an…

On the Journalism of Incomprehension

Thomas Chatterton Williams's profile in The Atlantic of Walter Kirn—arguably the most interesting writer and critic at work today—is a prototypical specimen in the new journalism of incomprehension. This genre is only somewhat less grating than the…

'A & P,' by John Updike

Walter and Matt discuss 'A & P', excerpt from America This Week, Episode 87

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Jews Must Not Let Politicians Curtail Free Speech - Tablet Magazine tabletmag.com/sections/news/…

I spent some days in Montana with the inimitable Walter Kirn, a highly original and pugnacious writer who believes elites have done worse than fall asleep at the wheel: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

America This Week, May 3, 2024: Gaza, Columbia, and More, in 'I&P'

Walter Kirn and I finally talk about a long-avoided subject. Plus, John Updike's 'A&P'

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Tomorrow on America This Week, ⁦Matt Taibbi⁩ and I will close the show with a discussion of John Updike's perfect, ringing short story about a young man's first, impulsive act of protest, A&P. Here's a free copy:

John Updike – A&P | Genius genius.com/John-updike-a-…

The establishment is down to two solutions, solutions it offers to every problem:

Send money & limit speech

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The two major parties right now increasingly feel like gangs who control different sides of town and are coming together in a calculated power-sharing agreement to protect their respective territories.

How about not passing bad laws against anti semitism that will have the predictable outcome of increasing hostility towards jews and Israel while depriving Americans of basic free speech rights

As Walter Kirn and I talked about on this week’s podcast (out tomorrow) neither side has shown much interest in respecting speech principles, which I think will hurt advocates in both camps

Recently watched 12 Angry Men and it hit me so hard how much our culture has lost appreciation for reason.

Each character in this movie is like a stage of consciousness, from the least conscious juror who emotionally clings to a false belief based on personal animus to the…