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John Ganz
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dottore, ingegnere, avvocato

When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s — out now from
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https://www.unpopularfront.news/
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When the Clock Broke
ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST'S TEN BEST BOOKS OF 2024One of The New York Times's 100 Notable Books of 2024Longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award...
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Reposted by John Ganz
LIVE NOW: Read Max x Unpopular Front
Max Read on Substack
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February 3, 2026 at 6:34 PM
"It's like Lenin said, you look for the person who will benefit… and, uh, uh, you know… You know, you'll uh, uh—well, you know what I'm trying to say…"

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MAGA's "People's Capitalism"
An Alliance of Bourgeoisie and Mob
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February 3, 2026 at 1:20 PM
Today's score from Polybius. Not sure about its interpretation of the Supreme Court, but all else seems intuitively correct.
February 2, 2026 at 2:06 PM
If you wanna help out with Polybius, we're looking for more social scientists and histrorians!!!
polybius.world/methodology
POLYBIUS ACI
Authoritarian Consolidation Index - Real-time democratic health monitoring powered by political science research and AI
polybius.world
February 1, 2026 at 7:58 PM
Two books about Kojeve; the Nordics vs. the Nazis; films about the Nuremberg trials
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Alexandre Kojève, Philosopher-Bureaucrat; Nordics vs. Nazis; Judgments of Nuremberg
Reading Watching 02.01.26
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February 1, 2026 at 4:42 PM
Today's Polybius score
January 30, 2026 at 1:28 PM
My adventures in vibecoding.—
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I Built a Robot
Introducing ‘Polybius‘
www.unpopularfront.news
January 29, 2026 at 1:47 PM
when was the last time i posted about the antisemitic left, asshole
January 28, 2026 at 5:52 PM
POLYBIUS, the authoritarian consolidation index, is live. (daily updates for now)
polybius.world
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January 28, 2026 at 2:33 PM
It's an Omega Seamaster Polaris from 1980s, its kind of a cheap quartz watch mostly marketed in Japan but I think they look really cool
January 27, 2026 at 6:37 PM
it is in fact named after the greek historian....
"poly bi us" named after the average gen z person
my machine now has a name : polybius
January 27, 2026 at 5:16 PM
my machine now has a name : polybius
January 27, 2026 at 5:14 PM
The German socialists had a motto — The Dead Admonish Us — it's written on the memorial to Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht. The dead admonish us, too.
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The Dead Admonish Us
Martyrdom and Memory
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January 27, 2026 at 2:44 PM
Resharing this for Holocaust Remembrance Day harpers.org/archive/2024...
The Dead Admonish, by John Ganz
Facing the ghosts of resistance and exile
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January 27, 2026 at 1:09 PM
January 27, 2026 at 12:19 PM
They're gonna call it Stancilgrad
January 27, 2026 at 2:46 AM
we're winning
January 26, 2026 at 10:34 PM
Tuesday marks five years of Unpopular Front.—
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To My Readers
Five Years of Unpopular Front
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January 25, 2026 at 2:20 PM
They killed another person in Minneapolis, it looks like.
January 24, 2026 at 4:01 PM
added a financial markets section
January 24, 2026 at 12:56 PM
added another model
January 23, 2026 at 7:24 PM
The calculator thinks that Trump's base support is still a problem, but I think it's overrating electoral interference risk
January 23, 2026 at 2:43 PM
Will Stancil 👍
January 21, 2026 at 4:29 PM
The ACI (I thing I made up with AI) doesn't lie
January 19, 2026 at 5:16 PM