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2026-04-10 17:28:18 UTC

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 15:31:11 UTC

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 16:40:05 UTC

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 20:50:45 UTC

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 18:40:37 UTC

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 16:28:34 UTC

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 20:16:59 UTC

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 18:18:18 UTC

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 17:01:03 UTC

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 16:56:40 UTC

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 16:12:21 UTC

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

2026-01-02 20:03:40 UTC

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 19:23:48 UTC

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 17:22:09 UTC

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 17:25:39 UTC

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 16:34:03 UTC

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 16:42:28 UTC

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 21:10:06 UTC

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 18:02:45 UTC

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 16:01:55 UTC

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 17:19:17 UTC

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 18:15:09 UTC

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 19:41:17 UTC

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 19:51:30 UTC

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 18:55:30 UTC

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 19:16:17 UTC

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 13:04:04 UTC

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 15:10:43 UTC

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 15:56:50 UTC

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 16:41:48 UTC

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 14:11:14 UTC

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 16:13:07 UTC

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 13:41:01 UTC

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 12:42:17 UTC

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 12:26:29 UTC

The Uses of Jeffrey Epstein
On the shifting political valences of Epstein trutherism
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6Osz!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F05610467-945f-440f-82f0-6e6a614ad2f0_1792x1552.jpeg
https://compactmag.substack.com/p/the-uses-of-jeffrey-epstein

2025-07-22 15:35:13 UTC

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 18:13:57 UTC

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 12:58:30 UTC

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 18:32:54 UTC

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

2025-06-06 14:44:04 UTC

The Obama-to-Yarvin Pipeline
Continuities of the Californian Ideology, 2014-2025
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5a6bc59a-3552-48f8-90d3-c89fade5d181_3908x2571.jpeg
https://compactmag.substack.com/p/the-obama-to-yarvin-pipeline

2025-05-30 19:51:42 UTC

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 20:58:34 UTC

On ‘Attention Capitalism’
Chris Hayes’s ‘The Sirens’ Call’ and the limits of tech criticism
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F03439a97-adbc-4be0-96f2-084220494bc7_1296x641.jpeg
https://compactmag.substack.com/p/on-attention-capitalism

2025-05-15 13:03:05 UTC

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 20:15:16 UTC

The Prospects of Anti-Woke Capital
On Jennifer C. Pan’s ‘Selling Social Justice’
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4674959b-76e4-460e-9aac-548edb199a03_555x461.png
https://compactmag.substack.com/p/the-prospects-of-anti-woke-capital

2025-05-02 18:38:26 UTC

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 19:19:31 UTC

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 21:02:27 UTC

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 20:19:50 UTC

The Long Birth Pangs of Post-Postmodernity
How my literary theory grad seminars predicted the Trump Shock
https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ac2f06a2-651b-40db-8a16-d97799eff70f_1194x234.png
https://compactmag.substack.com/p/the-long-birth-pangs-of-post-postmodernity

2025-04-04 19:19:30 UTC

What did y’all think post-neoliberalism meant? vibes? papers? essays?
The strange career of anti-globalization politics
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1c7cb357-4f55-4929-92f2-e11319e9936f_1394x779.png
https://compactmag.substack.com/p/what-did-yall-think-post-neoliberalism

2025-03-28 18:14:43 UTC

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 16:49:22 UTC

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 12:04:10 UTC

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 19:28:34 UTC

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 13:31:09 UTC

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 13:11:23 UTC

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 20:25:48 UTC

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 17:03:34 UTC

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 13:36:12 UTC

The Unbearable Fakeness of MAHA
RFK Is Now a One-Man Rebrand for the GOP's Bad Healthcare Policies
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F658ce201-87f8-40e1-bb0a-afef6c0b3cf5_5787x3858.jpeg
https://compactmag.substack.com/p/the-unbearable-fakeness-of-maha

2025-02-07 17:49:39 UTC

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 18:49:57 UTC

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 18:45:43 UTC

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 16:46:47 UTC

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 13:33:43 UTC

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 19:23:42 UTC

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 13:56:18 UTC

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 17:18:28 UTC

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 00:19:29 UTC

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 17:59:06 UTC

The Real “Woke Right”
Or: why Norman Mailer was both woke and redpilled avant la lettre
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faeb2ada3-c53f-4c32-a8d8-eaf9fc4c74ba_172x172.png
https://compactmag.substack.com/p/the-real-woke-right

2024-12-12 14:04:21 UTC

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 15:02:59 UTC

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 22:16:30 UTC

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 16:22:56 UTC

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 17:50:00 UTC

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 14:25:33 UTC

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 16:25:44 UTC

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

2024-11-07 14:27:04 UTC

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 20:05:50 UTC

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 14:51:35 UTC

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 13:03:40 UTC

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 16:43:51 UTC

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 13:05:24 UTC

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

2024-10-11 12:58:49 UTC

Call Her Harris: The VP’s Podcast Week
The Week in Review: October 7, 2024
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/call-her-harris-the-vps-podcast-week

2024-10-08 12:00:31 UTC

Who Is to Blame for Wokeness?
COMPACT's Blame Theory podcast
https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/149733743/75f9e7a608a70ebf1480635d33f3d4c0.mp3
https://compactmag.substack.com/p/who-is-to-blame-for-wokeness

2024-10-04 12:58:43 UTC

Chucking the vibes
The Week in Review: September 30, 2024
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/chucking-the-vibes

2024-10-02 14:35:30 UTC

The J.D. Vance I’d Been Waiting For
The New Center: A Wednesday Newsletter From Sohrab Ahmari
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/the-jd-vance-id-been-waiting-for

2024-09-27 14:58:39 UTC

Black MAGA-ites and the Diminishment of Discourse
The Week in Review: September 23, 2024
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/black-maga-ites-and-the-diminishment

2024-09-27 13:27:22 UTC

Blame Marx?
COMPACT's Blame Theory podcast
https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/149467748/d80e7e476b1eca0633d133acfa31528f.mp3
https://compactmag.substack.com/p/blame-marx

2024-09-25 13:26:53 UTC

Broken Subway, Broken Empire
The New Center: A Wednesday Newsletter From Sohrab Ahmari
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/broken-subway-broken-empire

2024-09-20 13:03:05 UTC

On not picking a side
The Week in Review: September 16, 2024
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/on-not-picking-a-side

2024-09-13 12:58:41 UTC

The Post-9/11 Vibe Shift
The Week in Review: September 9, 2024
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/the-post-911-vibe-shift

2024-09-11 13:27:27 UTC

China’s New Lobbyist: Wall Street
The New Center: A Wednesday Newsletter From Sohrab Ahmari
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/chinas-new-lobbyist-wall-street

2024-09-06 12:58:11 UTC

On campus encampments and the non-traditional right
The Week in Review: September 2, 2024
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/on-campus-encampments-and-the-non

2024-09-05 11:26:57 UTC

Social Democracy for National Security
The New Center: A Newsletter From Sohrab Ahmari
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1ef86b28-140c-48a5-a473-ff5647609c7d_1931x1086.jpeg
https://compactmag.substack.com/p/social-democracy-for-national-security

2024-08-30 19:01:40 UTC

Choosing [actual] joy amidst political fatigue
The Week in Review: August 26, 2024
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc2042b07-152e-4c12-8542-e7d3578525c3_1620x1080.jpeg
https://compactmag.substack.com/p/choosing-actual-joy-amidst-political

2024-08-30 12:52:49 UTC

Kamala the Border Hawk? Not So Fast
The New Center: A Newsletter From Sohrab Ahmari
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F80a5c08a-7505-4df7-a634-427ba15ca421_1456x1721.webp
https://compactmag.substack.com/p/kamala-the-border-hawk-not-so-fast

2024-08-28 14:26:11 UTC

Blame Postmodernists?
COMPACT's Blame Theory podcast
https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/147998966/2b9b70d24c6bd284ed1ad2ceab812be2.mp3
https://compactmag.substack.com/p/blame-postmodernists

2024-08-22 17:17:51 UTC

The Common Good and ‘None of Your Damn Business’
The New Center: A Newsletter From Sohrab Ahmari
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/the-common-good-and-none-of-your

2024-08-16 14:08:23 UTC

Eco-Terrorism, Ukrainian-Style
Sohrab Ahmari’s Newsletter and Round-Up
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/eco-terrorism-ukrainian-style

2024-08-09 15:14:08 UTC

Tim Walz and Hegelian E-girls
The Week in Review: August 5, 2024
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/tim-walz-and-hegelian-e-girls

2024-08-07 16:30:09 UTC

Steer Clear of the DeSantis Lane, Don!
The New Center: A Wednesday Newsletter From Sohrab Ahmari
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https://compactmag.substack.com/p/steer-clear-of-the-desantis-lane