When you think about it, it’s crazy that in a city as expensive as Toronto there’s a derelict mall above two subway stations on the most expensive retail stretch in the country just…sitting there.

A newly released Harris-Harvard poll conclusively demonstrates how radically out of touch is liberal corporate media with the views of Americans. It's not just that corporate media rejects Americans' views. They don't permit those views to be heard. harvardharrispoll.com/wp-content/upl…

1/15 Wealth and War The Western public debate about the war in Ukraine, both in politics and on social media, reveals a certain hubris (ask the ancient Greeks what that leads to), which is not only a bit outdated, but also based on a misunderstanding.

History will record the most important fact about ME TOO is that Aziz Ansari lost his career over an awkward date, and no one lost a thing for going to epstein island.

The new left is dead. Syriza, Podemos, Corbynism. Entirely predictable but still v little reflection going on, just lots of hand wringing

According to the Chinese intellectual Zhang Weiwei, the Western political system has 5 following syndromes:

It's the ultimate question about America

My blood's boiling & you're about to feel the same way. It's 🇨🇦's international students. Not them, but the diabolical, complex, & unimaginal scheme to fuel 🇨🇦's growth. Here's how 🇨🇦 manufactured an exploitation machine & sold it as social good. <thread> 🧵👇

News was decentralized in the past, w/good original reporting coming from working-stiff journalists in mid-size cities. Today, legacy media is consolidated and the journalists are trust fund kids who went to a top 5 university and resent the proles having opinions of their own.

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I wrote about everyone’s favorite topic: the crisis in the humanities. Here’s the truth: the humanities aren’t being wrecked by woke professors. They’re being wrecked by woke university bureaucrats and a debt-driven financial model that pushes students into “useful” majors. 🧵

There's a weird generational symmetry between boomers:millennials and xers:zoomers. Short 🧵

Fear & Loathing in the New Jerusalem, a 7-episode long-form deep dive into the origins of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Trailer (link to podcast is in the Youtube description): youtu.be/-F0E9xwDwfg?si…

This is quintessential New Left nonsense. Might as well reboot the Weather Underground and go to Yale. This is peak petite bourgeois radicalism. Sad that Zoomers are already dead and done.

"Leftism" is reactionary moralism that has no meaningful connection to historical Marxism whatsoever, any more than the stink coming off a corpse can tell you something about the personality of the deceased. But even the corpse has long since disintegrated. The contemporary

“We don’t need no education.” Tara Henley explains how journalists, once the brightest of the working class, have now become the dullest of the upper class. open.substack.com/pub/tarahenley…

It’s a little more fundamental than that. I’ve been trying not to post about this because I genuinely do not want to pick on this person (whom I wish well). But there is a broader systemic point that people keeping picking up on, and it’s worth unpacking a bit.

RT to get Elon Musk to listen to Fear & Loathing in the New Jerusalem to find out what he's missing.