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2026-07-31 18:09:37 CEST

The Poverty of Popularism
Police/prison abolition is unpopular because it’s a bad idea, not the other way around
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/the-poverty-of-popularism

2026-07-29 19:01:43 CEST

Mamdani's Smoke & Mirrors
Zohran Mamdani threatens to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu, Canadian wildfires fill New York City with smoke, and daylight savings time threatens to become permanent.
https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/209002466/b609d589d398f317f52c5c0a711b5bf2.mp3
https://compactmag.substack.com/p/mamdanis-smoke-and-mirrors

2026-07-20 12:03:01 CEST

Blame Economic Growth?
Has an obsession with economic growth turned us all into mindless, spiritually deadened consumers?
https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/207571020/71ab4adf50966b5d43a3d86a23bf89c6.mp3
https://compactmag.substack.com/p/blame-economic-growth

2026-07-17 17:03:35 CEST

Smoke Gets In My Eyes
This week in Compact
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/smoke-gets-in-my-eyes

2026-07-15 21:08:36 CEST

Politics of the Imagination
The war in Iran returns after its hydration break, liberal governments test-run authoritarian tech policies, and JD Vance publishes a new memoir.
https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/207196873/d0039994a263111e7d53f9b120299138.mp3
https://compactmag.substack.com/p/politics-of-the-imagination

2026-07-03 17:37:17 CEST

The Obsolescence of the Post-Left
The anti-PMC critique of DSA leftism is past its sell-by date
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/the-obsolescence-of-the-post-left

2026-06-26 21:04:57 CEST

AI and the Crisis of ‘Classical Liberalism’
What do you do when the Invisible Hand is building a totalitarian one-world government?
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/ai-and-the-crisis-of-classical-liberalism

2026-06-12 17:39:57 CEST

Why Little Magazines Matter
A few more thoughts from Dwight Macdonald
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/why-little-magazines-matter

2026-06-09 21:08:49 CEST

A Quick Request for Readers
Please support Compact’s summer campaign
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/a-quick-request-for-readers

2026-06-06 02:50:06 CEST

Mario Vargas Llosa and the Possibility of a Populist Novel
On the late Nobel laureate's final work, 'I Give You My Silence'
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/mario-vargas-llosa-and-the-possibility

2026-05-31 17:53:30 CEST

Blame the Frankfurt School? (Part 2)
Ashley and Geoff discuss “The Concept of Enlightenment,” the first section of Adorno and Horkheimer’s Dialectic of Enlightenment.
https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/199919981/91075e8dc8fabe14f8500d33a6e93c15.mp3
https://compactmag.substack.com/p/blame-the-frankfurt-school-part-2

2026-05-29 17:03:00 CEST

Reification and the Consciousness of the Tech Bro
Demystifying the Singularity
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/reification-and-the-consciousness

2026-05-22 17:25:44 CEST

Blame French Theory? In this Economy?
Notes on fully automated culture war
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/blame-french-theory-in-this-economy

2026-05-15 23:50:16 CEST

Blame the Frankfurt School? (Part 1)
Ashley Frawley and Geoff Shullenberger discuss Geoff’s article “The Frankfurt School Myth,” A.J.A.
https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/197920998/80153fcf2a768ed9dcb450d5b762d61c.mp3
https://compactmag.substack.com/p/blame-the-frankfurt-school-part-1

2026-05-15 15:47:51 CEST

Popping the bubble of pop anti-racism
The Week in Review: May 11, 2026
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/popping-the-bubble-of-pop-anti-racism

2026-05-08 18:30:14 CEST

The Grand Hotel Abyss on Little St. James
On microlooting, conspiracy theory, and why Gabriel Rockhill is the lumpen left's new guru
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/the-grand-hotel-abyss-on-little-st

2026-05-01 20:20:14 CEST

Attack of the Zombie Cyberlibertarians
time to stick a fork in it
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/attack-of-the-zombie-cyberlibertarians

2026-04-24 21:43:48 CEST

Palantir’s Cynical Ideology
‘Be Evil’
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/palantirs-cynical-ideology

2026-04-17 17:52:03 CEST

The Conformity Industrial Complex
Why we should worry about the tyranny of the majority
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/the-conformity-industrial-complex

2026-04-10 19:28:18 CEST

Artemis Shows Another Tech Is Possible
How the tech right gets space wrong
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/artemis-shows-another-tech-is-possible

2026-04-03 17:31:11 CEST

Sacrificing Cesar Chavez
The fate of monumental history in a critical age
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/sacrificing-cesar-chavez

2026-03-27 17:40:05 CET

The Agony of the Silicon Presidency
Obama, Trump, and the Outsourcing of the Future
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/the-agony-of-the-silicon-presidency

2026-03-20 21:50:45 CET

Critique of ‘Agentic’ Reason
Silicon Valley’s war on introspection
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/critique-of-agentic-reason

2026-02-27 19:40:37 CET

The Resurgence of Woke(?)
The Week in Review: February 23, 2026
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/the-resurgence-of-woke

2026-02-20 17:28:34 CET

Clavicular & the Erosion of Personality
The Week in Review: February 16, 2026
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/clavicular-and-the-erosion-of-personality

2026-02-06 21:16:59 CET

Free Love is Boring
The Week in Review: February 2, 2026
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/free-love-is-boring

2026-01-30 19:18:18 CET

Gender Me Happy
The Week in Review: January 26, 2026
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/gender-me-happy

2026-01-23 18:01:03 CET

Groypers, Protestors, & Real Gender Equality
The Week in Review: January 19, 2026
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/groypers-protestors-and-real-gender

2026-01-16 17:56:40 CET

Nice Minnesotans Finish Last
The Week in Review: January 12, 2026
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/nice-minnesotans-finish-last

2026-01-09 17:12:21 CET

The NatCon Con
Neither national nor conservative
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/the-natcon-con

2026-01-02 21:03:40 CET

The Left’s Groyper War
Gabriel Rockhill is the left’s Nick Fuentes
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/the-lefts-groyper-war

2025-12-26 20:23:48 CET

The Best of 2025
The Week in Review: December 22, 2025
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/the-best-of-2025

2025-12-19 18:22:09 CET

Bernie Bro Elegy
White male millennial socialists in the age of DEI
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/bernie-bro-elegy

2025-12-12 18:25:39 CET

Mamdani, Bi Tradwives, & DC Life
The Week in Review: December 8, 2025
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/mamdani-bi-tradwives-and-dc-life

2025-12-05 17:34:03 CET

The Borrowed Venezuelan Kettle
MAGA’s foreign policy fugue state
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/the-borrowed-venezuelan-kettle

2025-11-21 17:42:28 CET

No One Knows What ‘the West’ Is
The significance of an ideological split on the far right
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/no-one-knows-what-the-west-is

2025-11-14 22:10:06 CET

The Death of the Conservative Prestige Economy
The establishment needs right-wing influencers more than they need it
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/the-death-of-the-conservative-prestige

2025-11-07 19:02:45 CET

Welcome to Mamdani's NYC
The Week in Review: November 3, 2025
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/welcome-to-mamdanis-nyc

2025-10-31 17:01:55 CET

Out of Africa
Is history repeating itself for the Mamdani family?
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/out-of-africa

2025-10-24 19:19:17 CEST

The Automation of Antihumanism
On Leif Weatherby’s ‘Language Machines’
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/the-automation-of-antihumanism

2025-10-21 20:15:09 CEST

The Crisis of Liberalism (Part 7): Nick Land’s Paleoliberal Accelerationism
Geoff Shullenberger and Ashley Frawley discuss the career and thought of the philosopher Nick Land, accelerationist, neoreactionary, and advocate of “paleo-liberalism.” Read Geoff’s recent profile of Land here.
https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/176755551/c103979d4f7f7c5e622d0a9f85cc21f6.mp3
https://compactmag.substack.com/p/the-crisis-of-liberalism-part-7-nick

2025-10-17 21:41:17 CEST

Gay Frogs, Cosmic Horror, and the Eclipse of Antihumanism
'Man' may have a future, but fashionable academic antihumanism doesn't
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/gay-frogs-cosmic-horror-and-the-eclipse

2025-10-10 21:51:30 CEST

Protecting the Peace
The Week in Review: September 22, 2025
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/protecting-the-peace

2025-10-03 20:55:30 CEST

The Limits of Free Speech Libertinism
The meaning of the GOP's "porn exception" on free speech
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/the-limits-of-free-speech-libertinism

2025-09-26 21:16:17 CEST

Getting out of the Machine
The Week in Review: September 22, 2025
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/getting-out-of-the-machine

2025-09-22 15:04:04 CEST

The Crisis of Liberalism (Part 6): The Persistence of Eugenics
https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/174180170/0d37e055cee34e6a655b7f5dc8be3187.mp3
https://compactmag.substack.com/p/the-crisis-of-liberalism-part-6-the

2025-09-19 17:10:43 CEST

Labubu, Kidults, & MMA
The Week in Review: September 15, 2025
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/labubu-kidults-and-mma

2025-09-12 17:56:50 CEST

The Return of the Assassin
The shifting logic of spectacular violence
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/the-return-of-the-assassin

2025-09-05 18:41:48 CEST

Slouching Towards ‘Excellence’
Why the University of Austin isn't as radical as it thinks
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/slouching-towards-excellence

2025-08-29 16:11:14 CEST

Taylor Swift, Hipster Leftists, & the CIA's future
The Week in Review: August 25, 2025
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/taylor-swift-hipster-leftists-and

2025-08-22 18:13:07 CEST

The Populist Future Ahead
The Week in Review: August 18, 2025
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/the-populist-future-ahead

2025-08-08 15:41:01 CEST

Big Tech gets a reality check
The Week in Review: August 4, 2025
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/big-tech-gets-a-reality-check

2025-08-01 14:42:17 CEST

The First Tech Right
Why the 1990s effort to align Silicon Valley with the GOP failed
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/the-first-tech-right

2025-07-25 14:26:29 CEST

The Uses of Jeffrey Epstein
On the shifting political valences of Epstein trutherism
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/the-uses-of-jeffrey-epstein

2025-07-22 17:35:13 CEST

The Crisis of Liberalism (Part 5): The Origins of Eugenics
COMPACT's Blame Theory podcast
https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/168961323/b3d60634d5b0ad0209037bb5af946df9.mp3
https://compactmag.substack.com/p/the-crisis-of-liberalism-part-5-the

2025-07-18 20:13:57 CEST

The First Great Covid Movie May Also Be the Last
On Ari Aster’s ‘Eddington’
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/the-first-great-covid-movie-may-also

2025-07-11 14:58:30 CEST

Zohran Mamdani, Petty-Bourgeois Radical
The uncertain prospects of a post-woke left
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/zohran-mamdani-petty-bourgeois-radical

2025-06-20 20:32:54 CEST

Back soon, barring apocalypse...
(Exit, pursued by bear)
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/back-soon-barring-apocalypse

2025-06-06 16:44:04 CEST

The Obama-to-Yarvin Pipeline
Continuities of the Californian Ideology, 2014-2025
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/the-obama-to-yarvin-pipeline

2025-05-30 21:51:42 CEST

The Californian Ideology in Ruins
Stray thoughts inspired by Richard Barbrook
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/the-californian-ideology-in-ruins

2025-05-16 22:58:34 CEST

On ‘Attention Capitalism’
Chris Hayes’s ‘The Sirens’ Call’ and the limits of tech criticism
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/on-attention-capitalism

2025-05-15 15:03:05 CEST

The Crisis of Liberalism (Part 3): The Trans-ing of the Political Subject
COMPACT's Blame Theory podcast
https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/163569676/9702f22e4958fb251ab078577c6b2794.mp3
https://compactmag.substack.com/p/the-crisis-of-liberalism-part-3-the

2025-05-09 22:15:16 CEST

The Prospects of Anti-Woke Capital
On Jennifer C. Pan’s ‘Selling Social Justice’
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/the-prospects-of-anti-woke-capital

2025-05-02 20:38:26 CEST

Cronenberg Beyond the Grave
A few thoughts on ‘The Shrouds’
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/cronenberg-beyond-the-grave

2025-04-25 21:19:31 CEST

The Covert Theology of ChatGPT
From Plato to Barthes to Sam Altman
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/the-covert-theology-of-chatgpt

2025-04-18 23:02:27 CEST

From the War on Terror to the War on Covid—and Back Again
Meet the new state of exception, same as the old state of exception
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/from-the-war-on-terror-to-the-war

2025-04-11 22:19:50 CEST

The Long Birth Pangs of Post-Postmodernity
How my literary theory grad seminars predicted the Trump Shock
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/the-long-birth-pangs-of-post-postmodernity

2025-04-04 21:19:30 CEST

What did y’all think post-neoliberalism meant? vibes? papers? essays?
The strange career of anti-globalization politics
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/what-did-yall-think-post-neoliberalism

2025-03-28 19:14:43 CET

Notes on Viral Hegemony
How to squander a realignment
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/notes-on-viral-hegemony

2025-03-21 17:49:22 CET

Fully Automated Luxury Liberalism
Some thoughts on Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson’s “abundance agenda”
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/fully-automated-luxury-liberalism

2025-03-17 13:04:10 CET

The Crisis of Liberalism (Part 2)
COMPACT's Blame Theory podcast
https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/159206774/583eeb2ee2c8982edc632388f4557865.mp3
https://compactmag.substack.com/p/the-crisis-of-liberalism-part-2

2025-03-14 20:28:34 CET

Elegy for the Last Covidians
Why the left still can’t let go of lockdowns
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/elegy-for-the-last-covidians

2025-03-07 14:31:09 CET

Abolish Grad School
A DOGE initiative I can get with
https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0b71ce27-2645-4c61-99dd-f58d1fbadd1b_1024x541.jpeg
https://compactmag.substack.com/p/abolish-grad-school

2025-03-07 14:11:23 CET

The Crisis of Liberalism (Part 1)
COMPACT's Blame Theory podcast
https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/158442753/2ed171f3bc1746162d44e966061845b2.mp3
https://compactmag.substack.com/p/the-crisis-of-liberalism-part-1

2025-02-28 21:25:48 CET

Notes on Right-Wing Cancel Culture
And Further Thoughts on 'Viral Hegemony'
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/notes-on-right-wing-cancel-culture

2025-02-21 18:03:34 CET

Welcome to the Bizarro Awokening
Meet the new bluechecks, same as the old bluechecks
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/welcome-to-the-bizarro-awokening

2025-02-14 14:36:12 CET

The Unbearable Fakeness of MAHA
RFK Is Now a One-Man Rebrand for the GOP's Bad Healthcare Policies
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/the-unbearable-fakeness-of-maha

2025-02-07 18:49:39 CET

The Masquerade of Power
Or, DOGE did not take place
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/the-masquerade-of-power

2025-01-31 19:49:57 CET

Why Tech Criticism Failed
On Nicholas Carr’s “Superbloom” and the manifesto “A Future for the Family”
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/why-tech-criticism-failed

2025-01-24 19:45:43 CET

The Forever War on Woke
In her New York Times column on “Trump’s Plan to Crush the Academic Left,” Michelle Goldberg notes that New College of Florida, ground zero of Gov.
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/the-forever-war-on-woke

2025-01-17 17:46:47 CET

David Lynch’s Errand Into the Wilderness
He never lost faith in America
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/david-lynchs-errand-into-the-wilderness

2025-01-17 14:33:43 CET

Blaming Men, Blaming Women (Part 1)
COMPACT's Blame Theory podcast
https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/154957718/f4c0d2bc1a5558135ba1b56e3b4d30da.mp3
https://compactmag.substack.com/p/blaming-men-blaming-women-part-1

2025-01-10 20:23:42 CET

How “Climate” Became God
From the Lisbon earthquake to the LA fire
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/how-climate-became-god

2024-12-27 14:56:18 CET

Populism—of Some Sort—Is Here to Stay
Reflections on the revolution in, well, pretty much everywhere
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/populismof-some-sortis-here-to-stay

2024-12-20 18:18:28 CET

The Present and Its Enemies
Stasists and dynamists vs. technocrats
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/the-present-and-its-enemies

2024-12-15 01:19:29 CET

The Age of Emotion
COMPACT's Blame Theory podcast
https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/153091464/b062e7ec69cb5f47057e877607ff19bc.mp3
https://compactmag.substack.com/p/the-age-of-emotion

2024-12-13 18:59:06 CET

The Real “Woke Right”
Or: why Norman Mailer was both woke and redpilled avant la lettre
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/the-real-woke-right

2024-12-12 15:04:21 CET

The Triumph of the New Center
Sohrab Ahmari’s Final Compact Substack
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/the-triumph-of-the-new-center

2024-12-06 16:02:59 CET

Which Way, Populist Man?
MAGA, Milei, and the Celtic Paper Tiger
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/which-way-populist-man

2024-11-29 23:16:30 CET

We Need a MAGA Left
The symbols of midcentury American prosperity remain potent, and up for grabs
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/we-need-a-maga-left

2024-11-22 17:22:56 CET

The Sacrificial Crisis of Anti-Fascism
A riot in brownstone Brooklyn
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/the-sacrificial-crisis-of-anti-fascism

2024-11-15 18:50:00 CET

Yes, the Left Lost
On crime, immigration, and inflation, progressives need to take the L
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/yes-the-left-lost

2024-11-13 15:25:33 CET

Taming the Democratic NGO-Plex
The New Center: A Wednesday Newsletter From Sohrab Ahmari
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/taming-the-democratic-ngo-plex

2024-11-08 17:25:44 CET

Why Weird Won
The necessity of Trump
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/why-weird-won

2024-11-07 15:27:04 CET

Resist the #Resistance
The New Center: A Newsletter From Sohrab Ahmari
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/resist-the-resistance

2024-11-01 21:05:50 CET

Uncanny Alliances
This week at COMPACT; a mini-review of 'Smile 2'
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/uncanny-alliances

2024-10-31 15:51:35 CET

The New Anti-Semites Are Evil—and Boring
The New Center: A Newsletter From Sohrab Ahmari
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/the-new-anti-semites-are-eviland

2024-10-25 15:03:40 CEST

Sovereignty and Annihilation
This week at COMPACT; Houellebecq and Jameson
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/sovereignty-and-annihilation

2024-10-18 18:43:51 CEST

One Direction, and the Direction of Internet Discourse
The Week in Review: October 14, 2024
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/one-direction-and-the-direction-of

2024-10-16 15:05:24 CEST

Europe’s Creeping Deindustrialization
The New Center: A Wednesday Newsletter From Sohrab Ahmari
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/europes-creeping-deindustrialization