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Accidental Revolution

Aristophanes

America is going crazy. Normal people sense the mood. Something is wrong. They can’t describe it. The source of their discontent—of our national disorder—is the Internet, the digital revolution. The Internet is the biggest invention to impact the distribution of information in hundreds of years.

Supervillains

Peachy Keenan

They don’t name supervillains the way they used to. I grew up with a James Bond fanatic father. He had all the movies on well-worn bootlegged VHS tapes. Our favorites were Dr. No, Goldfinger, and You Only Live Twice. Mostly Connery, although Moonraker snuck in there too, since it’s so fun. But it was the Bond villains, so deliciously named, who captured our imaginations.

'THE ROUNDTABLE' EPISODE #133

The Delusional GOP of Yesteryear

Seth Barron

This week, The American Mind team is off, with the exception of Seth Barron who has volunteered to bring you a short and sweet one-man show before we return to a full complement next week. Against the background of Liz Cheney’s crushing defeat in the Wyoming primary, Seth analyzes the ever-widening rift between the New Right that is taking over the GOP and the old guard who are now finding themselves not only on the outs, but unelectable. Obviously the only answer in that position is to assume everyone else is wrong and run for president, right? Right?!