Rick Perlstein
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"O, let America be America again—
The land that never has been yet..."
The land that never has been yet..."
3 Days to Catch the MONSTER of this Tiny Lake...
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December 30, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Stanning Herman Melville on the CBC as my end-of-year "explains it all" book pick was a fave moment of 2025.
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The books that explained 2025
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December 29, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Stanning Herman Melville on the CBC as my end-of-year "explains it all" book pick was a fave moment of 2025.
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This is not idle speculation. The intercepts of the Witkoff/Kushner/Dmitriev conversations leaked by NATO intel services to various European and US publications show that this is _exactly_ what is going on. It's the most humiliating chapter in the whole history of US diplomacy.
December 28, 2025 at 7:28 PM
This is not idle speculation. The intercepts of the Witkoff/Kushner/Dmitriev conversations leaked by NATO intel services to various European and US publications show that this is _exactly_ what is going on. It's the most humiliating chapter in the whole history of US diplomacy.
A slow burn, soon a prairie fire. A Wesleyan prof tells me her students all mock AI and refuse to use it: the cultural vanguardrd.. Meanwhile, DeSantis stuck his finger in the wind and, feeling the fire, is making anti-AI his new political calling card.
December 28, 2025 at 6:45 PM
A slow burn, soon a prairie fire. A Wesleyan prof tells me her students all mock AI and refuse to use it: the cultural vanguardrd.. Meanwhile, DeSantis stuck his finger in the wind and, feeling the fire, is making anti-AI his new political calling card.
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« Construisez un pont invisible », une conversation avec Emmanuel Carrère, Charlotte Casiraghi, Giuliano da Empoli, Benjamin Labatut et Rick Perlstein
«Construisez un pont invisible», une conversation avec Emmanuel Carrère, Charlotte Casiraghi, Giuliano da Empoli, Benjamin Labatut et Rick Perlstein | Le Grand Continent
Khrouchtchev aurait dit un jour à Nixon : « Si les gens pensent qu'il y a une rivière invisible, ne leur dites pas qu'elle n'existe pas. Construisez un pont invisible. » Au Sommet Grand Continent, nous avons mis cinq écrivains contemporains en quête des ponts invisibles qui pourraient relier notre réalité cassée.
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December 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
« Construisez un pont invisible », une conversation avec Emmanuel Carrère, Charlotte Casiraghi, Giuliano da Empoli, Benjamin Labatut et Rick Perlstein
At a recent conference of EU-oriented politicians and policy experts, the single humanities panel was named for one of my books. Amid haut Français abstraction, I chose a gut punch, narrating the secret police invasion of my town. Somehow, as a whole, it works.
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Des ponts invisibles avec Carrère, Casiraghi, Da Empoli, Labatut et Rick Perlstein | Le Grand Continent
Khrouchtchev aurait dit un jour à Nixon : « Si les gens pensent qu'il y a une rivière invisible, ne leur dites pas qu'elle n'existe pas. Construisez un pont invisible. » Lors du Sommet Grand Continen...
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December 28, 2025 at 5:52 PM
At a recent conference of EU-oriented politicians and policy experts, the single humanities panel was named for one of my books. Amid haut Français abstraction, I chose a gut punch, narrating the secret police invasion of my town. Somehow, as a whole, it works.
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A personal hero of mine would like to discuss the nature of time with you.
(Skip ahead to start at 7:20.)
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Betty Carter and John Hicks Trio in Norway (1978)
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December 27, 2025 at 10:53 PM
A personal hero of mine would like to discuss the nature of time with you.
(Skip ahead to start at 7:20.)
youtu.be/4n3qW4CGjIw?...
(Skip ahead to start at 7:20.)
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Read about the new scholarship on Spain, then contemplate the fact that Franco was venerated in the National Review from the start, and you hav a skeleton key, opening up the fact that "modern American conservatism" never maintained a meaningful distance from fascism. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
‘We’ve Got to Kill and Kill and Kill’ | Dan Kaufman
As Francisco Franco’s reputation grows on the far right, a new history of his regime reminds us of its unrelenting violence toward Jews.
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December 26, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Read about the new scholarship on Spain, then contemplate the fact that Franco was venerated in the National Review from the start, and you hav a skeleton key, opening up the fact that "modern American conservatism" never maintained a meaningful distance from fascism. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Fascinating new book about how urban planning and speculation vaporized a poor neighborhood in Baltimore.
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How a ‘ghost highway’ destroyed a prosperous Black neighborhood
“Road to Nowhere,” a new book by historian Emily Lieb, sheds light on what happened to Rosemont, a neighborhood in West Baltimore that was set to be demolished for a highway.
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December 26, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Fascinating new book about how urban planning and speculation vaporized a poor neighborhood in Baltimore.
www.thebanner.com/economy/high...
www.thebanner.com/economy/high...
I used to dream constantly about fishing, but since I didn't fish, I dreamed about fishing wrong. Now I still dream about fishing, but dream about it right. Fishing never stops being pure dream.
December 25, 2025 at 9:51 PM
I used to dream constantly about fishing, but since I didn't fish, I dreamed about fishing wrong. Now I still dream about fishing, but dream about it right. Fishing never stops being pure dream.
I heard someone say we don't look at screens in our dreams. For me, that's the case. Something haunting in that. Like, our dreams know they're not real.
December 25, 2025 at 8:59 PM
I heard someone say we don't look at screens in our dreams. For me, that's the case. Something haunting in that. Like, our dreams know they're not real.
December 25, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Bari Weiss is what happens when that normal thing steals upon oldsters--fear of youth and the new frontiers of freedom youth explore--who, because they are Boomers shaped by '60s insurgencies, can't handle thinking themselves "conservative," and have to call it "rebellion." Her constituency.
December 24, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Bari Weiss is what happens when that normal thing steals upon oldsters--fear of youth and the new frontiers of freedom youth explore--who, because they are Boomers shaped by '60s insurgencies, can't handle thinking themselves "conservative," and have to call it "rebellion." Her constituency.
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Bari Weiss's legacy:
December 23, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Bari Weiss's legacy:
Turns out she's been apologizing for Nayib Bukele for a good long time.
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Bari Weiss Praised El Salvador’s Dictator Before Spiking '60 Minutes' Story on His Torture Prison
Weiss touted El Salvador’s brutal leader while her blog published jokes about Trump sending immigrants to the CECOT prison.
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December 23, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Turns out she's been apologizing for Nayib Bukele for a good long time.
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The guards made them drink nothing but water from their toilets.
Bari Weiss lied in her memo. She said segment didn't report administration's legal justification (it does in the very first sentence) and didn't say how many detainees had been charged with crimes as opposed to just those who were convicted (it does). www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment
I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat.
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December 23, 2025 at 2:29 AM
The guards made them drink nothing but water from their toilets.
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Would really be something if the journos at 60 Minutes sued their EIC for defaming them
Bari Weiss lied in her memo. She said segment didn't report administration's legal justification (it does in the very first sentence) and didn't say how many detainees had been charged with crimes as opposed to just those who were convicted (it does). www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment
I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat.
www.muellershewrote.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Would really be something if the journos at 60 Minutes sued their EIC for defaming them
Bari Weiss lied in her memo. She said segment didn't report administration's legal justification (it does in the very first sentence) and didn't say how many detainees had been charged with crimes as opposed to just those who were convicted (it does). www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment
I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat.
www.muellershewrote.com
December 23, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Bari Weiss lied in her memo. She said segment didn't report administration's legal justification (it does in the very first sentence) and didn't say how many detainees had been charged with crimes as opposed to just those who were convicted (it does). www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
CBS could have been on the cutting edge of this one...
BREAKING: Judge James Boasberg rules for those deported under the Alien Enemies Act on March 15 — certifying a class, finding the U.S. maintained constructive custody over them at CECOT, finding they were not given due process, and ordering return or that such process be given by Jan. 5, 2026.
![ORDER
For the reasons stated in the accompanying Memorandum Opinion, the Court ORDERS
that:
1. Plaintiffs' [177] Motion for Summary Judgment is GRANTED;
2. Plaintiffs' [178] Motion for Class Certification is GRANTED;
3. Defendants' [182] Motion for Summary Judgment is DENIED; and
4. The Government shall submit its proposal either to facilitate the return
of Plaintiffs to the United States or to otherwise provide them with
hearings that satisfy the requirements of due process by January 5,
2026.
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/s/ James E. Boasberg
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December 23, 2025 at 12:15 AM
CBS could have been on the cutting edge of this one...
I'm thinking D.B Cooper named himself after Holden Caulfield's brother D.B. in "Catcher in the Rye." Then there's Mark David Chapman holding a copy after shooting Lennon. What a cultural touchstone. Taken as holy. Wild.
December 22, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I'm thinking D.B Cooper named himself after Holden Caulfield's brother D.B. in "Catcher in the Rye." Then there's Mark David Chapman holding a copy after shooting Lennon. What a cultural touchstone. Taken as holy. Wild.
Check this out, the fashy transportation secretary named his kids "Evita."
December 22, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Check this out, the fashy transportation secretary named his kids "Evita."
To Wilhoit's Law and JKG on conservatism as "the search for a superior moral justification for greed," add Goethe's "I prefer to commit an injustice than to endure disorder," and you have pretty much have the whole deal, right there.
December 21, 2025 at 8:51 PM
To Wilhoit's Law and JKG on conservatism as "the search for a superior moral justification for greed," add Goethe's "I prefer to commit an injustice than to endure disorder," and you have pretty much have the whole deal, right there.
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Just watched this. It's great, *especially* the editing - you'll know what I mean if you watch it.
It reminds me of just how many of these movies are excellent, yet still unwatched by me, for various odd reasons.
It reminds me of just how many of these movies are excellent, yet still unwatched by me, for various odd reasons.
Tonight was a hoot. "Breakdown: 1975" dropped on Netflix. Me and the gang. I like it!
Here's one set of shots :-)
Here's one set of shots :-)
December 20, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Just watched this. It's great, *especially* the editing - you'll know what I mean if you watch it.
It reminds me of just how many of these movies are excellent, yet still unwatched by me, for various odd reasons.
It reminds me of just how many of these movies are excellent, yet still unwatched by me, for various odd reasons.
