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noahpinion.blog
JD Vance's crusade against GDP is wrong and bad

The American right is simply tweaking these arguments to make them more appealing to their own base... So they want some way to neutralize this objection, so they can do things that will, in fact, make America poorer.

— Noah Smith
3w ago

We are all of us the worse for too much liberty, and the better for a master. What we call the tyranny of words is only the tyranny of a master we have not yet found.

4w ago
noahpinion.blog
Hasan Piker is bad for the Democrats

If the mainstream should always include extremists in the conversation — if gatekeeping is useless and counterproductive — then all you have to do in order to force extremist ideas into mainstream discourse is to grab some attention. If you get a Twitch stream or a podcast and you start screaming that the Holocaust was fake, or that the USSR was good, etc., and you manage to get a decently big audience by doing this, you should now have a say in how the country is run.

3mo ago
3quarksdaily.com
The writing secrets of Stephen King

She wants to identify how he chooses and places words with the intention of producing material effects on the reader's body. How, exactly, does he make hearts beat faster, stomachs lurch and palms prickle with sweat?

3mo ago

The mind is so rarely modified by facts; it is modified by feeling, and feeling is modified by art.

4mo ago

Underscored — save the words that stop you in your tracks.

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