Zack Beauchamp
Senior Correspondent, Vox. Host of the Worldly podcast. (((Globalist))). "Low serotonin lobster."
Last synced from Twitter 409d ago
Game of Thrones’ finale betrayed the show’s core themes
Game of Thrones’ political realism fell apart in season eight. Tyrion’s appeal for Bran was the fatal blow.
Butch Walker - You Belong With Me
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I hate when straight male artists cover love songs by women and feel the need to change the gender in the lyrics (this is an egregious example youtube.com/watch?v=W1ysjt…). Are you so afraid of being called gay, cowards?
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Can socialists and liberals get along?
A new case for socialism reveals the ways liberals and socialists need each other — and why they have so much trouble getting along.
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Using @sunraysunray’s new book to examine the bitter divide between liberals and socialists
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How Game of Thrones did Daenerys wrong
The problem isn’t that Daenerys went mad. It’s how the show got there.
Hungary’s leader is waging war on democracy. Today, he’s at the White House.
It’s arguably the most revealing White House visit yet — and not in a good way.
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Viktor Orbán’s White House visit should be a warning sign to Americans. Our democracy really could go the way of Hungary’s.
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Game of Thrones says goodbye to two of its biggest characters, badly
What the hell was that?
Hungary and the Future of Europe
Viktor Orbán's escalating conflict with liberalism.
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One of the most troubling trends on the intellectual right today is its valorization of Viktor Orbán’s Hungary
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On the IDW: A Response to Eric Weinstein
Over the past few weeks, I’ve published two Quillette articles encouraging the Intellectual Dark Web (IDW) to engage more with the ideas of identity, privilege, and structural oppression (often referred to collectively as “social justice”) that have...
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It probably does @safeortrue no favors for me to cite him favorably, given my reputation in IDW-land, but this is a truly excellent piece
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What should a left foreign policy look like? An Elizabeth Warren adviser offers his vision.
"We’re at a moment where there’s a lot of flux in how people are thinking about foreign policy."
The political science of why Game of Thrones’ Daenerys may be a terrible queen
Targaryens and "personalist" dictatorships.
Poway and Pittsburgh: the rise in murderous anti-Semitism, explained
A dangerous breed of anti-Semitism, at once very old and very modern, is on the rise.
White supremacists are trying to recruit American teens through video games
A scholar of gaming culture on what went wrong with "gamer" culture — and why white nationalists see gamers as potential allies.
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10. These things are easy to access through mainstream sources. Incel terminology like "Chad" is pervasive on the internet; hate flourishes in immensely popular gaming communities
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The rise of incels: How a support group for the dateless became a violent internet subculture
What incels believe — and the dangers they pose.
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For the past six months, I've been conducting a deep investigation of the incel community. What I learned was disturbing — and not in the obvious ways
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1. After spending six months reading incel sites nearly every day, speaking to over a dozen incels, and reviewing forum records going back over 20 years, I came to a really scary conclusion about the nature of modern politics itself
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One year ago today, an incel murdered ten people in Toronto. Today, some incels refer to him as a “saint” - a sign of just how far gone this community is
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3 winners and 3 losers from CNN’s marathon Democratic presidential town hall
A great night for the progressive movement — and Harvard.
Elizabeth Warren’s really simple case for breaking up big tech
This riff from Elizabeth Warren is Amazon’s worst nightmare.
The Mueller report’s collusion section is much worse than you think
The contacts with Russians documented in the report amount to a devastating indictment of Trump’s approach to politics.
The attorney general just pre-spun the Mueller report for Trump
Barr spun everything in Trump’s favor — and literally walked offstage when he was called on it.
Republicans are taking Ilhan Omar’s comments on 9/11 out of context to smear her
It’s Islamophobia, plain and simple.
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The GOP distortions of @ilhanMN’s 9/11 comments are unfair, ugly, and straight-up bigoted. @dancrenshawtx, in particular, owes her an apology
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These scholars are trying to stop Kirstjen Nielsen from getting a soft landing
A challenge to America’s culture of elite impunity.
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Why @henryfarrell’s petition against Kirstjen Nielsen matters (with comments by signatory @normative)
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The Pete Buttigieg boom
How the mayor of South Bend became a surprisingly serious contender in the 2020 Democratic primary race.
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Why @PeteButtigieg has broken out of a crowded field — and why you need to take his dark horse run seriously
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