A historic tragedy: What really made America great was that it was based on the Enlightenment ideals of individual rights, the rule of law, and democracy, not blood and soil or throne and altar. Descendants of Eastern European Jews, Italians, Indians, Mexicans, Chinese, Caribbean

With very few exceptions (the great Clifford Asness being one), the people with immense quantities of FU money in the second Trump era are the most likely to turn into cringing lickspittles. What's the point of having FU money if it makes you too afraid to say "FU"?

so we all agree that buster keaton should be posthumously awarded multiple oscars right?

A regrettable dynamic: Smart people fed up with wokeism, ricochet to Trumpism, apparently amnesic for, or too unimaginative to think through, the alternative to both, namely liberal, pro-science, Enlightenment humanism. Eric Kaufmann (next post) explains the false dichotomy.

An excellent cultural representation of the country Trump thinks he can take over with a few threats.

I don't pay to be "verified" here (sure, Elon...) and my tweets have clearly been throttled down to almost nothing. But for the few who see this: On my S*bstack today, I published a lengthy essay about Donald Trump's War on History. dgardner.substack.com/p/the-war-on-h…

The simplest way to test for bias is to reverse the political polarity and ask if this person would say the same thing. And if those involved had been woke leftists, my guess is the likes of Stephen Taylor would be furious.

If someone who claims to be a journalist constantly appears at events that turn into angry shitshows, and he makes big money by showing video of said shitshows, the odds he is the innocent and aggrieved party in any particular shitshow approach zero.

Today we remember Her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, who was born #onthisday in 1926.

My dinner with Adolf. dgardner.substack.com/p/my-dinner-wi…

It sure would be nice if the Conservatives even mentioned Donald Trump. You know, Trump, the guy collapsing the world as we know it. Threatening to destroy Canada's economy. Demanding the end of Canada. That guy. You'd think they could at least pretend to notice.

This statement by Putin puppet Trump is a betrayal of everything the United States has stood for since the Welles Declaration of 1940. Trump is a Russian operative and a traitor to the United States.

Happy Dominion Day! Best appreciated with some vexillogy, courtesy of fellow Canuck Dan Gardner open.substack.com/pub/dgardner/p…

Seconded. 🇨🇦🇬🇧

Look at the parade of jeering, obscenities, and idiocies following this comment. This is what X has become. Left or right, it doesn't matter. Why do people continue to waste their time in this hateful swamp? (A gentle suggestion: S*bstack's "Notes" is X minus the madness.)

"Journalists are too lazy to do real reporting" says guy in wake of real reporting by journalists.

Why people fall for Nazi apologetics and other distortions of history: The Infinite Complexity of History, by Dan Gardner open.substack.com/pub/dgardner/p…

Given the central roles played by Scots in the British Empire, it's hilarious when they complain about English colonialism.

Legend has it Joe Kennedy Sr. (father of JFK) sold his stocks when the shoe shine boy talked about the stocks he'd invested it. It was 1929. Sell everything.