Polls, politics, postpunk. Friendly Writer and cohost of @Political_Beats at @NRO. Dedicated to you, but you weren't listening.
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RIP Tom Skerritt. A great actor who had an uncanny ability to show up in the most iconic movies, even if it was with the briefest part. I did a wide-ranging talk with him a few years ago that's still one of my favorite interviews [Gift link]: vulture.com/2021/10/tom-sker…
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Intelligence and wisdom are different stats for a reason.
I think it’s time to open ourselves up to the possibility that despite his ability to amass a fortune estimated at $2.3 billion, Vivek Ramaswamy’s brainpower far outpaces his wisdom and judgment.
This is the finest piece I have ever written for @NRO. It has nothing to do with politics whatsoever. Instead it is a tribute to the indescribable power of the written word - to move, and to command the conscience.
My ode to "The Master and Margarita": nationalreview.com/magazine/…
It occurs to me that 100 years from now, if people are still watching James Cameron movies, it will be a critical commonplace that he peaked with his first major film.
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University of Chicago students want Congress to repeal the 1958 Onion Futures Act, which banned futures trading on onions after a notorious market manipulation scheme. | @JohnPuri2026
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The fact that so many self-proclaimed experts who make a living on polling and elections accepted fake results is really striking.
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Unfortunately for the GOP, Ds have a pretty extensive history of freaking out regardless of how good or bad their prospects are.
I think we can call a wrap on the idea of Vivek Ramaswamy as governor of Ohio, at this point.
I don't regret a word of this long-overdue thrashing. The latest at @NRO: nationalreview.com/2026/10/v…
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This is super-exciting. If you go to the RCP website, you'll see the "RCP + AI" button. Signing up (which you should do with whatever email you use for AI) will send you to instructions on how to add a connector that you can then use for research into RCP's poll database.
This was an incredible episode (and surprisingly brisk!), and Part 2 will only be more fun. The Cure/1978-1984 on @Political_Beats, w/guest @derekwilc, at @NRO! nationalreview.com/podcasts/…
This can't be true, but I don't care, I want it to be.
My wife watched Grey’s Anatomy for a bit and here are some REAL plot lines:
-A man has extra arms growing out of his back he calls “Angel Wings” and it’s implied he can hover with them
-A dead dad possesses his son to perform surgery on his sister. The son’s not a surgeon he’s a janitor who just broke into the OR
-A man fell 40,000 ft from a plane and came in with ONE BROKEN LEG
-A man gets crushed in a trash compactor so they do surgery at the dump using trash as tools. They hum the Fat Albert theme during
-The hospital’s swamped because “a guy dressed as a clown blew up a hospital downtown” implying they’re in Gotham City and the Joker is real
-A burglar uses explosives to blow open a safe, the door then imbeds in his chest and they need a locksmith to open it so they can perform surgery
-Jared from Subway is a recurring character
-The main doctor has a migraine so bad she can freeze time. It’s not played metaphorically, she’s physically moving things
A wonderful and telling factoid about Vivek Ramaswamy, emphasizing that the minute people heard him speak he dropped in popularity. (courtesy @JohnPuri2026)
