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How Obama Built an Omnipotent Thought Machine, and How It Was Destroyed By David Samuels If anyone in the future cares enough to write an authentic history of the 2024 presidential campaign, they might begin by noting that American politics exists downstream of American culture, which is a deep and broad river. Like any river,…

Rage Against the Machines is the title of this book review of The Extinction of Experience: Being Human In a Disembodied World by Christine Rosen. In 1954, Walker Percy published a short philosophical essay called “The Loss of the Creature,” arguing that modern man had given up sovereignty over his own existence. Advertisements, magazine articles,…

Brownstone Institute has been tracking a little-known federal agency for years. It is part of the Department of Homeland Security created after 9-11. It is called the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency or CISA. It was created in 2018 out of a 2017 executive order that seemed to make sense. It was a mandate to…