Political debate in an America without honor
Now our inheritance of honor is exhausted, rendering many forms of our politics meaningless.
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Election 2020 will be about open borders & America’s future
The Democratic Party has made official its lurch to the left by, among other things, advocating for open borders.
Fact-checking: useful, until it becomes politically biased trivial pursuit
Summary: Monday’s debate shows the limit of fact-checking, even in those rare cases where it’s politically neutral. While useful in small doses, it boosts our obsession with the trivial aspects of the race and obscures the great issues at stake. Also, it’s seldom done with a neutral viewpoint — becoming glib defenses of the established …
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Everything you need to know about yesterday’s debate
Summary: Here is everything you need to know about yesterday’s debate, beyond the trivialities that filled the 90 minutes. These are things your favorite news media might not have mentioned. Contents South Park shows us a great debate. The candidates lie to us! Compare these debates with real debates. Do debates matter? Reactions to …
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Monty Python explains our presidential debates
Summary: This Monty Python skit perfectly captures the absurdity of our presidential debates, which seem designed to keep us uninformed (even stupid). Unfortunately they are the spectacles we want. {2nd of 2 posts today.} “Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see …