Category Archives: Politics

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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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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Passages: How the World Works

Posted on 12 April 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

My favorite news magazine, The Week, is celebrating 20 years of publication with its current April 16th issue, which has retrospectives of cover images, editorial essays, and so on. Here’s one of the latter, by editor-in-chief William Falk.

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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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Links and Comments: About Gun Violence

Posted on 29 March 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

I’m narrowing in on a Provisional Conclusion that most people live their daily lives without any perspective or context about what happens in the outer world. (And, for many issues, that’s just fine. But not for all issues.) Thus, Americans … Continue reading →

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Links and Comments: Confessed Liars, Their Targets, Right-Wing Political Spin

Posted on 25 March 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

Confessed liars Sidney Powell (and Tucker Carlson); gullibility for conspiracy theories; Right-wing misinformation campaigns.

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Links and Comments: New Religions

Posted on 15 March 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

QAnon as white supremacy plus evangelicals; how fading religious identities transfer allegiances to politics.

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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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