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"The conditions for being an author in America today are extremely fraught: A poorly chosen metaphor or an opinion that challenges consensus can destroy a career.". Read Reinaldo Laddaga's piece in COMPACT:
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Once we’ve seen a stereotypical scene, it’s impossible to unsee it.
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“A decade is a lifetime in AI development.”. Read Wesley Hodges @wesghodges & Daniel Cochrane's @RealDCochrane piece in COMPACT:
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During consideration of the Big Beautiful Bill, signed into law by President Trump last month, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) inserted a measure that would have discouraged state-level regulation of...
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Oliver Bateman joins Geoff Shullenberger to discuss his new Compact piece "The Death of the Post-Left." .
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Podcast Episode · Compact Podcast · 08/04/2025 · 1h 45m
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“The anti-woke right is not worthy of this heritage; its militants haven’t earned the right to claim ownership over Thucydides, Cervantes, Shakespeare, or Goethe, let alone defend them.”. Read Ralph Leonard’s @buffsoldier_96 piece in COMPACT:
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One of the great lines from Goethe’s Faust states: “What you inherit from your forbears, must be earned before it is owned.” Today’s anti-woke culture warriors would do well to heed this lesson.
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RT @matthewschmitz: Against Tucker Carlson and the many promoters of the Epstein myth—. New @againstthepod
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RT @stephengadubato: I'm happy to share that I'll be taking on the position of associate editor at @compactmag_. I look forward to continue….
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RT @AlbertoMiguelF5: A magisterial review by Luttwak of that fascinating, sleazy but talented creature Curzio Malaparte (Kurt Erich Suckert….
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RT @matthewschmitz: The Epstein Myth is a synthesis of conspiracy theories that explains everything from the failures of US foreign policy….
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Podcast Episode · Against the Grain · 08/01/2025 · 2h 25m
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RT @matthewschmitz: Curzio Malaparte was a fascist, anti-fascist, war hero, womanizer, and Maoist. And like @ELuttwak—who reviews his life….
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Maurizio Serra’s biography of Curzio Malaparte mostly consists of digressions, which is just the right approach in recreating the “mythomaniac, exhibitionist, and serial turn-coat” Kurt Erich...
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RT @stephengadubato: “This is a kind of eugenics, not in the crude, “only healthy seed must be sown” sense, but as the much more subtle bur….
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By now you’ve seen the ad: A sultry and supine Sydney Sweeney zips up her denim suggestively, while saying in a voiceover, “Genes are passed down from parents to offspring, often determining traits...
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“The second iteration of the tech right is succeeding where the first failed in part because the transformation heralded by Toffler has not led to a flourishing of Toquevillian civil society.”. Read @g_shullenberger’s latest newsletter
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Why the 1990s effort to align Silicon Valley with the GOP failed
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RT @stephengadubato: “We have seen the supplanting of mass organizations by a new logic of centralization: the brutal, winner-take-all mono….
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Why the 1990s effort to align Silicon Valley with the GOP failed
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“It was his own intrigue that was his downfall.”. Read Edward Luttwak’s @ELuttwak piece in COMPACT:
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Maurizio Serra’s biography of Curzio Malaparte mostly consists of digressions, which is just the right approach in recreating the “mythomaniac, exhibitionist, and serial turn-coat” Kurt Erich...
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“Sweeney and the transfluencers … share the same eugenic logic.”. Read @AshleyAFrawley’s piece in COMPACT:
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By now you’ve seen the ad: A sultry and supine Sydney Sweeney zips up her denim suggestively, while saying in a voiceover, “Genes are passed down from parents to offspring, often determining traits...
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RT @AshleyAFrawley: Okay, okay. If the Sydney Sweeney ad is eugenic, so is the Vogue Trans+ Pride spread. My latest for @compactmag_ 👇. ht….
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The US and the EU cut a trade deal, a gunman targets several NFL executives at their New York office, a recent Sydney Sweeney ad sparks controversy. Ashley Frawley and Geoff Shullenberger join Matthew Schmitz.
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Podcast Episode · Compact Podcast · 07/31/2025 · 54m
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“Trump’s tariffs … threaten to undermine the fundamental justification for the European Union.”. Read Philip Cunliffe's @thephilippics piece in COMPACT:
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Though the details of the recent trade deal between the United States and the European Union continue to emerge, it is clear that Donald Trump has secured an enormous diplomatic victory.
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RT @matthewschmitz: “Trump’s tariffs have not resulted in the cataclysm that many economists predicted. Nor have they isolated the US while….
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"If the purpose of including mentions of past injustice is to improve the lot of Native Americans, then this measure has completely failed.". Read Carlos Dengler's piece in COMPACT:
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In March, President Donald Trump issued an executive order forbidding federal properties such as museums, parks, and monuments from displaying “content that inappropriately disparages Americans past...
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RT @stephengadubato: “Lenders like the Fed have adhered to the neoliberal logic of protecting investor assets.”. @rojasrjuand in @compactma….
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Last week, President Donald Trump paid a visit to the Federal Reserve which is currently undergoing renovations.
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