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NYT: When Prophecy Fails – Pt. 24,182
In When Prophecy Fails (1956), Leon Festinger showed how disconfirmation of beliefs can lead to increased conviction in these very beliefs. Festinger stated that five conditions must be present if someone is to become a more fervent believer after a … Continue reading
NYT: Eli Mosely’s Lie = The Entirety of the AR
A recent NYT article by one Emma Cott proudly doxes Eli Mosely, in addition to getting to its central point: Mosely lied about serving in Iraq and how this deception is some sort of analogy for the Alt-Right itself (“How … Continue reading
Brave Lions & Paper Tigers
Amongst the courageous MSM big lions, those fearless champions of transparency (see All the President’s Men and The Post), I’m sensing a rather different, cocktail-party-driven narrative: WaPo: “Once the party of law and order, Republicans are now challenging it” NYT: … Continue reading
NYT: “The State of the (White Nationalist) Union”
It’s the day after SOTU, so the NYT naturally gives precious SOTU-related op-ed space to Kashana Cauley (“The State of the (White Nationalist) Union”): This fatalist, white nationalist view of the world is a reminder that if last night was … Continue reading
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Politico: “Americans are dreamers too” = White Nationalism
In Politico, here is how Rebecca Morin responds to Trump’s “Americans are dreamers too” line (“Trump’s ‘dreamers’ line in State of the Union draws praise from David Duke”) President Donald Trump’s sole reference to “dreamers” during his State of the … Continue reading
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CNN: Melania Arrived at SOTU Separately from POTUS
Here is what CNN is focusing on after SOTO (“Melania Trump arrived at State of the Union separately from the President”): CNN — In a break with longstanding tradition, Melania Trump opted to ride with the guests she invited to … Continue reading
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And Then They Came for Tennys Sandgren
The MSM is targeting American tennis star Tennys Sandgren because he (gasp!) doesn’t dismiss Alt Right tweets & theses outright. From Business Insider: In his post-match press conference, Sandgren read a prepared statement from his phone. “You seek to put … Continue reading
The NYT’s Readership Diversity
Recently, the NYT took a walk on the wild side by publishing 15 very brief, pro-Trump letters “[i]n the spirit of open debate, and in hopes of helping readers who agree with us better understand the views of those who … Continue reading
JYT on Deneen’s “Why Liberalism Failed”
From Jennifer Szalai’s critical review in the NYT of Patrick Deneen’s Why Liberalism Failed: In an otherwise illuminating section on the development of capitalism, Deneen refers to the great economic historian Karl Polanyi, who showed how the state had to … Continue reading
NYT: Six Stories of ‘Motherhood’
“Conception: Six Stories of Motherhood” looks to be a vibrantly diverse animated docu-series, with the 2-min trailer featuring the voices of a black and two lesbians. I can’t wait to hear the ‘motherhood’ story of the cartoon figure at the … Continue reading
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