Recommended Reading: Arrogance of Power
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Recommended Reading: Arrogance of Power
This Week's Recommended Reading on Substack: Steven Beschloss, Oliver Willis, Justin Ling, Karim Zidan, Juliet Jeske, Andrea Grimes, and Erin Reed
The Week's Recommended Reading on Substack:
writs that “the emergence of America as increasingly ruled by oligarchy at the expense of democracy—in which political power resides with a small, elite segment, making a mockery of the will of the people, an equitable society and the value of the common good—is hard to miss. Add to this the increasing arrogance, the sense of entitlement, and the shamelessness of this royal cohort.” writes “the substance of politics is just too boring for far too many in the press corps, who would prefer that they were covering one of the Real Housewives or Kardashians instead of Boring Barack and Boring Biden.” writes that “we live in an era where people straight across the political spectrum feel that something has gone fundamentally rotten. For those who feel that way, there is a deeply held believe that there must be bigger factors at play than what is directly in front of our faces. In their quest to discover these hidden pressures, they go looking for the roots of our current malaise to another point in time.” reports how the “Wagner group also focused on recruiting combat sports athletes from various martial arts gyms and sports clubs in Russia. Over the past few months, I have uncovered more than 60 participating gyms across Russia, including eight participating gyms in Moscow, most of which cater to adults and children alike. Six of the gyms are located in St. Petersburg, while dozens more are located in Anapa, Astrakhan, Barnaul, Ekaterinburg, Omsk, Orenburg, Volgograd, and Voronezh.” reports that on Friday evening “mainstream news outlets started reporting that Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the Wagner Group, a private mercenary compiled partly of convicts, was staging some type of rebellion against the Russian government. In the shows I was scheduled to analyze on Friday night the crisis was hardly mentioned. Fox News was completely ignoring it.” writes that “it’s the one-year anniversary of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization SCOTUS decision that ended nationwide federal protections for abortion rights. Practically every news organization that has ever covered abortion (and some that have mostly side-stepped the issue!) released reporting packages this week.” writes that the “United States continues to split into what feels to transgender people like two separate countries. Several states have rolled out a slew of laws targeting every facet of transgender lives - from censoring books that address their existence, stifling associated art forms, to banning healthcare and policing their very movements with bathroom bans. In stark contrast, a band of states has forged ahead in the opposite direction, enacting laws that shield transgender individuals from these crushing measures.”
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This was an excellent edition of your newsletter, thank you.
The gaslighting, political corruption, 24/7 propaganda, and obliteration of the truth is so clear to anyone watching the carnage unleashed by Russia, but too few see the exact same rulebook at play in the US.