9 August 2022
The company man: sage or sucker?
Robert Wright, Jonah Goldberg, and Mickey Kaus debate the merits of putting commitment to an institution ahead of one’s personal brand.
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In this video:
- Remembering the halcyon days of early Bloggingheads
- Jonah: Our institutions have become platforms for parasites
- Censorship and polarization in the social media age
- What Mickey cribbed from Jonah to jumpstart his blogging career
- How Twitter killed the blogging star
- Is Substack blogging reborn?
- What’s the matter with the modern left? Jonah diagnoses
- A Trump-Biden rematch and other depressing symptoms of polarization
- Is devotion to an institution a sucker bet?
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The DMZ
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Waiting for Steve Bannon
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Against the tide on Russia-Ukraine
