The White House UFC fight isn’t a throwback to the Roman Colosseum—it’s a revival of the ancient Olympic Games
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- Compact repostedI reviewed a new anthology of essays by the great midcentury gadfly Dwight Macdonald, who has plenty to say to us in a new age of war and automatism:
- Compact repostedDwight Macdonald was better known for his writing in Politics (5,000 subscribers) than his writing in the New Yorker (500,000). compactmag.com/article/dwight…
- Compact reposted“Macdonald’s inclinations aligned him with the American small-r republican tradition, which always saw a corrupting effect in prolonged foreign entanglements & the expansion of the military apparatus.” @g_shullenberger in @compactmag
“I also found in Macdonald’s political essays that much of what he criticized can be found around us today, and still merits criticism along the same lines.” Read Geoff Shullenberger’s @g_shullenberger piece in COMPACT:- Compact reposted“Let Buenos Aires be for AI what Amsterdam was for the age of sail,” Javier Milei recently declared. @borovinsky examines the latest moves of the ultra-libertarian rock star president:
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- Compact repostedThe Meaning of Milei’s AI Gamble
- Compact reposted“If Argentina made an outsized contribution to global politics in the twentieth century, under its new president it is positioning itself to do so once again, pushing in the opposite direction.” @borovinsky in @compactmag
- “Milei’s Argentina is trying to accelerate toward the world to come.” Read Tomás Borovinsky’s @borovinsky piece in COMPACT:
