Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Reading archive 2025-04-28 pt 2

How to Say No to a Would-Be Autocrat: The head of Israel’s internal-security agency stands up for the rule of law.

Finally, Someone Said It to Joe Rogan’s Face: Should the star podcaster take any responsibility for how he uses his power?

 - "The podcast circuit likes to portray wokeness as decadent a pursuit of college students, affluent feminists, and activists with no real problems but this exchange reveals something even darker about its approach. Beyond decadence, this is nihilism: The Roganverse's 'lol, nothing matters' approach to life is possible only for people living comfortable lives in a prosperous democracy, where the worst possible crime is to be a buzzkill.

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"The whole episode has revealed a major break between the members of the Roganverse who still have an attachment to journalism such as Murray, who is an associate editor of The Spectator, a conservative magazine and those who regard all information sources as basically equal. 'The incentive structures and thought patterns we would typically associate with the entertainment business are not the same as those we would expect to see in journalism or academia,' Kisin wrote in his perceptive post on the controversy. In other words, don't get your opinions on Israel, or anything else, entirely from stand-up comics, Bigfoot forums, and men named Dave."

Why Is Trump Mad at the Zoo?: In search of “improper ideology” among the animals

Trump Is Already Undermining the Next Election: And the one after that, and the one after that. - "But the one person who has no constitutional authority over federal elections is the president. The chief executive of the country (whose unilateral authority the Founders most feared) has, quite literally, no role at all in the federal election system. None."

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