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False Patriots
In July Carlson mused at a public event about the Jewish billionaire Bill Ackman, asking out loud how Ackman had acquired his wealth. [...]Carlson portrayed him as something altogether different: \"If you're getting rich by loaning money to people at incredibly high interest rates, that's something you're going to have to talk to God about.\" In January Vice President JD Vance hired Carlson's son, Buckley, as a senior member of his staff. If youre not sure who the good guys were in World War IT; if you believe that Moscow is preferable to Miami; if youre kind to a head of state who calls America the Great Satan and fawn over a dictator who tells you that America is a puppet state run by the CIA, while being aggressive with a Republican senator from Texas-maybe youre not a trusted partner in the effort to restore America.
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Stan Lee : a life in comics
Few artists have had as much of an impact on American popular culture as Stan Lee. The characters he created-Spider-Man and Iron Man, the X-Men and the Fantastic Four-occupy Hollywood's imagination and production schedules, generate billions at the box office, and come as close as anything we have to a shared American mythology. This illuminating biography focuses as much on Lee's ideas as it does on his unlikely rise to stardom. It surveys his cultural and religious upbringing and draws surprising connections between celebrated comic book heroes and the ancient tales of the Bible, the Talmud, and Jewish mysticism. Was Spider-Man just a reincarnation of Cain? Is the Incredible Hulk simply Adam by another name? From close readings of Lee's work to little-known anecdotes from Marvel's history, the book paints a portrait of Lee that goes much deeper than one of his signature onscreen cameos.
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Home, Not Real Estate
The internet, he observes, has done to home ownership what pornography has done to human sexuality: take a magical, intricate, and layered pursuit built on trust and presence and long-term relationships and turn it into a frantic and futile search for fast, facile gratification that severely damages our ability to live rewarding lives in the real world. Circa 2000, \"real estate agent\" was the land shark prowling your neighborhood in search of properties about to go on the market, the go-getter who lived or died by being first to the deal. Harris learned that it was up to him to remind them that the real estate they were about to buy isn't just a collection of metrics-price per square foot and so forth, the sort that data algorithms so excel at processing and prioritizing.
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Fortunate sons : the 120 Chinese boys who came to America, went to school, and revolutionized an ancient civilization
In 1872, the Qing Empire sent 120 boys to America in the hope that they would unlock the mysteries of Western innovation. They studied at New England's finest schools, befriended luminaries such as Mark Twain and Ulysses S. Grant, and exchanged ideas with their American peers that would change the course of both nations. But when anti-Chinese fervor forced them back home, the young men faced a new set of obstacles, having to overcome a suspicious imperial court and a culture deeply resistant to change. Filled with colorful characters and vivid historical detail, this book unearths the dramatic stories of these young men who led China at the pivotal moment when it teetered between modernity and tradition.--From publisher description.
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A Life Worth Hacking
Butter-infused coffee shakes, electromagnetic pulse belts for your dog, and a plethora of pills promising to do everything from tricking your stomach into thinking it's full to tricking your body into believing it's young-there was no shortage of offerings that felt, even to the most open-minded newcomer, like hokum at best or a pernicious hoax at worst. A struggling traditional healthcare system, an aging population in which older adults are projected to eclipse children in the next ten years, and a robust tech sector that finds all areas of human life ripe for disruption: these trends make for excellent conditions to encourage the building of machinery that addresses the most pressing biological challenges of the human species. \"If I didnt do what I just did in there,\" he replied, \"I wouldn't have been able to teach you anything at all.\" Because a body that cant relieve itself, he realized, also can't pray.
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LEIBOVITZ AT LARGE
Forget income inequality or social justice or all the other pinko chestnuts of old-all you need to do to excite the left these days is to chant \"globalize the Intifada\" Turn to the right, and you'll hear a similar tune. \"The one silver lining to all this,\" wrote Darryl Cooper, a popular self-styled internet historian on the right and a guest on Carlson and Joe Rogan's shows, \"is that everyone, left, right, and center, now knows that Israel controls U.S. foreign policy, and that most politicians and conservative media personalities are foreign agents.\" Consider the fact that no lesser lion of liberalism than Jon Stewart now fawns over Carlson's cackling propaganda videos, warning that World War III will soon ensue if President Trump takes any action against the murderous mullahs in Tehran. [...]Carlson, I believe, is little more than an Obama bro in a tanned MAGA skinsuit, defending Iran- the crown jewel of Obamas foreign policy-and castigating America for believing it has any moral advantage or right to pursue its interests. Unable to sell their political vision to a nation increasingly enamored with secular liberalism, they dragged a Jewish officer named Alfred Dreyfus to court and accused him-and, by proxy, all Jews-of treason.
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The Minecraft Effect
Others have tossed popcorn buckets at one another, doused each other in flour, and set off a fire extinguisher. More than once, theater management has had to summon the police or otherwise strive to keep the merriment down to a minimum. In 2019, Microsoft scrubbed several mentions of Persson from the history of the game he had created and did not invite him to Minecraft's massive ten-year anniversary celebration, stating that Persson's views \"do not reflect\" those of the corporation.
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