If the details are new, the lesson of the "Twitter Files" is an old one.

@DavidAFrench argues that in its desire to limit "harmful" speech, Twitter behaved exactly like universities in the era when speech codes ruled campus.

(h/t @thedispatch)

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persuasion.community/p/the-twitter-… The speech code was born of a desire to protect students and faculty from psychological discomfort.

In many cases it was vague and broadly enforceable, granting administrators extraordinary power over speech.

Something similar happened at Twitter.

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The pandemic is not over, but the emergency is.

Now, we need to learn how to live with COVID and prepare for the viruses to come, argues Persuasion columnist @jon_rauch.

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persuasion.community/p/how-to-live-… Actions like lockdowns and universal masking made sense when we were waiting for live-saving vaccines.

But no further cavalry is coming. And COVID is no emergency for the vaccinated and healthy.

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The rich and famous will usually be just fine.

@ZaidJilani argues it's the less privileged who will face the worst consequences from "cancel culture."

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persuasion.community/p/the-powerles… Figures like JK Rowling and Dave Chappelle have emerged from their respective controversies relatively unscathed.

They have suffered very modest consequences and continue to enjoy wealth and fame.

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“The truth is that we failed even in the Biden administration’s narrow aims in Afghanistan. And we failed shamefully.”


In Persuasion, David Hamburger argues against attempts to cast the current situation as inevitable & the evacuation as orderly.

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1/4 "There is a difference between inaction and abandonment, just as there is a difference between realism and fatalism.”


Preventing the abandonment of U.S. allies was a matter of unique responsibility, not of fighting all global injustices.

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