Category Archives: Conservative Resistance

Ls&Qs: Denying Reality, Rewriting History

Posted on 16 July 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

It gets worse and worse.

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Links and Comments: Why People Believe

Posted on 9 July 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

Links from recent weeks, on political themes. The point, as always, isn’t to rag on Republicans or conservatives, it’s to collect case studies on epistemology: how and why people believe what they do. More and more, Republicans and conservatives have … Continue reading →

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L&C: Bamboozled, hoodwinked, led astray

Posted on 9 July 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

From a long Facebook post by one Thomas Clay Jr. (a journalist and author of at least one book): here.

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Ls&Cs: Utopias; Crises; Paranoia

Posted on 25 June 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

A sidebar article in last Sunday’s New York Times Magazine interviews Rutger Bregman. How to Think Like a Utopian. Bregman is a young Dutch historian who wrote UTOPIA FOR REALISTS (which I blogged about here) and more recently HUMANKIND: A … Continue reading →

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Links and Comments 12 April 21

Posted on 12 April 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

Anti-vaxxers and Stop the Steal; Historical animus against Italians, and Irish; Racial replacement theory; Conservatives against democracy.

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Links and Comments: Owning Libs and Tyrannical Government Plots

Posted on 1 April 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

Republican values and principles; enduring human nature.

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Link and Comments: Covid skeptics and critical thinking

Posted on 15 March 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

Slate, 11 March, Rebecca Onion: COVID Skeptics Don’t Just Need More Critical Thinking, subtitled, Without a shared approach to scientific expertise, “trusting the data” won’t lead us to the same conclusions. This entails the question, What is science? Not everyone … Continue reading →

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Links and Comments: Things Change, 1

Posted on 11 March 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

Will MAGA panic subside with an old white man back in the presidency? How American political parties have disintegrated in the past, and the Republican party may now be doing. How Britain has become the dumbest society in the world, … Continue reading →

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Link and Comments: From McCarthyism to the Assault on the Capitol, via 1951 SF movies

Posted on 27 February 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

Slate: What UFOs and Joe McCarthy Have to Do With the Assault on the Capitol. Who knew?

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Links and Comments: It Could Have Been Worse; It Might Get Worse; Lessons

Posted on 9 January 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

I don’t pretend to have any special insight into current events, but for the sake of perspective, of checking back from the future to see where we were at on this day, I will briefly summarize. (Similarly, it would be … Continue reading →

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