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The Day Trek Changed: From “Where No Man” to Wrath— & a real franchise was born. Sixty years ago, production wrapped on the second “Star Trek” pilot: Where No Man Has Gone Before” Friday, December 24, 1965. That, I think, was the first true franchise-hinge moment. The second came seventeen years later, with Nicholas Meyer taking the quarterdeck of HMS Star Trek on the voyage...


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If someone keeps advancing despite demonstrable incompetence at public‑reason journalism, perhaps they are doing a different job than advancing public reason—effectively, and deliberately…


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The latest Epstein postcard, DeepFakes, & the Rufo Doctrine when nothing matters: Trump, predation, excuses, & the neofascist right marches on…


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Fake “standards” become real censorship: the segment Bari Weiss & the Ellisons do not want you to see—a cleared 60 Minutes report vanished, and why that matters for power and truth, as corporate calculus meets state cruelty on the Cecot story’s path to the cutting room floor’ the demand for a Stephen Miller cameo wasn’t “balance”—it was veto…


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With my comments appended. Adrian Monck’s introduction to the post: 3.7 million applicants. 40,000 positions. One professor’s survival guide: Renmin University Professor and social media star Nie Huihua explains what China’s civil service exam gets you – and why the prize 3.7 million applicants are chasing might not be worth winning…


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