Thank you for calling out Bari Weiss and The Free Press. TFP was good when it started, but went downhill fast. Now that they have VC money it’s even worse. Their two biggest investors are Marc Andreesen and David Sacks. That should tell you something. Not to mention all the NatCon people who write for them, like Douglas Murray, Ayaan Hir…
Thank you for calling out Bari Weiss and The Free Press. TFP was good when it started, but went downhill fast. Now that they have VC money it’s even worse. Their two biggest investors are Marc Andreesen and David Sacks. That should tell you something. Not to mention all the NatCon people who write for them, like Douglas Murray, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Niall Ferguson, Abigail Shrier, and more. HR McMaster wrote a piece for TFP, but he refuses to be interviewed by The Bulwark. John Cochrane has also written for TFP. So the entire GoodFellows team is now in love with Bari Weiss. It’s so disheartening.
And then there’s Victor Davis Hanson (another Stanford guy in tight with Ferguson, McMaster and Cochrane) in a recent TFP article extolling Elon Musk. “ We should reflect on the Musks in our midst,” writes Victor Davis Hanson for The Free Press. “They play a vital role in enriching culture and civilization.” 🤢
Several weeks ago, I caught a short video clip of VDH saying this election is a "battle for civilization" - with Donald Trump representing the side of "civilization." (And MAGAs huffed about how terribly incendiary it was to say he threatened "democracy," not civilization itself.)
In case that's no weird enough, Hanson went on to say that Trump has the "talent to appeal to the better angels of our nature." Which is borderline insane, or maybe just across that border.
Calling Elon Musk an enricher of culture when he's credulously amplifying conspiracy theories and anti-Semitic tropes and Kremlin propaganda is almost as nutty.
I would cross out the 'borderlines' and 'almosts' in your comment - such analysis in TFP, et al., is hubris & Nihilism made flesh; the biblical language of Good and Evil is better suited to framing MAGA and tRump for what they truly represent. Morals and Ethics have been thrown off the Maga bus in favor of mere ambition, avarice, and pure animus.
Thank you for calling out Bari Weiss and The Free Press. TFP was good when it started, but went downhill fast. Now that they have VC money it’s even worse. Their two biggest investors are Marc Andreesen and David Sacks. That should tell you something. Not to mention all the NatCon people who write for them, like Douglas Murray, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Niall Ferguson, Abigail Shrier, and more. HR McMaster wrote a piece for TFP, but he refuses to be interviewed by The Bulwark. John Cochrane has also written for TFP. So the entire GoodFellows team is now in love with Bari Weiss. It’s so disheartening.
And then there’s Victor Davis Hanson (another Stanford guy in tight with Ferguson, McMaster and Cochrane) in a recent TFP article extolling Elon Musk. “ We should reflect on the Musks in our midst,” writes Victor Davis Hanson for The Free Press. “They play a vital role in enriching culture and civilization.” 🤢
Several weeks ago, I caught a short video clip of VDH saying this election is a "battle for civilization" - with Donald Trump representing the side of "civilization." (And MAGAs huffed about how terribly incendiary it was to say he threatened "democracy," not civilization itself.)
In case that's no weird enough, Hanson went on to say that Trump has the "talent to appeal to the better angels of our nature." Which is borderline insane, or maybe just across that border.
Calling Elon Musk an enricher of culture when he's credulously amplifying conspiracy theories and anti-Semitic tropes and Kremlin propaganda is almost as nutty.
I would cross out the 'borderlines' and 'almosts' in your comment - such analysis in TFP, et al., is hubris & Nihilism made flesh; the biblical language of Good and Evil is better suited to framing MAGA and tRump for what they truly represent. Morals and Ethics have been thrown off the Maga bus in favor of mere ambition, avarice, and pure animus.