COVID, Hacking, and Spying Helped China Develop a New Stealth Fighter in Record Time
In the West, the pandemic put the defense industry on hold. In China, the military used the time to make big advances.
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COVID, Hacking, and Spying Helped China Develop a New Stealth Fighter in Record Time
REUBEN JOHNSON: In the West, the pandemic put the defense industry on hold. In China, the military used the time to make big advances.
🎧 On the Pods… 🎧
Jonathan Rauch: On the Defense of Truth
On today's Bulwark podcast, Jonathan Rauch joins Charlie Sykes to discuss his new book The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth.
For Bulwark+ Members… 🔐
MORNING SHOTS: The Shark Attack Party 🔐
CHARLIE SYKES: How panic porn shapes our politics
THE TRIAD: Flesh Peddling To Own the Libs 🔓
JVL: Raymond Arroyo is the perfect distillation of modern conservatism.
From The Bulwark Aggregator…
Believe It or Not, Some States Are Making It Easier to Vote – Ed Kilgore, Intelligencer
How the Mormon Church Beat Bill Gates in a Battle Over Farmland – Scott Weiss, The Daily Beast
America’s Alcohol Industry Needs a Drink – Amanda Mull, The Atlantic
The Filibuster Will Survive Because a Few Democrats Are Smart Enough Not To Kill It – Eric Boehm, Reason
2 arrested at Virginia school board meeting on critical race theory, transgender policy – Dominick Mastrangelo, The Hill
‘Rogue city leaders’: How Republicans are taking power away from mayors – Liz Crampton, Politico
Florida ranks 37th in U.S. for COVID-19 recovery, study says – Garfield Hylton, Orlando Sentinel
In Today’s Bulwark...
How the Southern Baptist Convention Rejected Populist Fundamentalism
ALAN CROSS: The SBC faced an organized attempted takeover from the forces of populism. And they rejected it in favor of renewing their core values.
🚨OVERTIME 🚨
🎵 ON THE JUKEBOX: BLEACHERS’ STOP MAKING THIS HURT LIVE FROM A BUS.🎵
A cool cop.
The MLB is the worst. I’m with Max. This is getting bonkers. Manfred has to go.
Tired: CRT bans.
Wired: Mandatory surveys of beliefs.
Just backin’ the blue…
Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews
!! NEW: Feds say this is video of Scott Fairlamb of New Jersey harassing & assaulting police outside Capitol on Jan 6. Judge cited this video in ordering Fairlamb jailed. (WARNING ..... this is tough to watch) https://t.co/p3B50ZoE2rTucker Carlson’s propaganda playbook… A worthwhile read from Just Security:
Propaganda’s very nature is undemocratic because it influences us without our consent; it is also one of the means used to achieve fascist ends. As philosophers Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno wrote in their 1944 book Dialectic of Enlightenment, “propaganda manipulates people; when it cries ‘freedom’ it contradicts itself. Deceit and propaganda are inseparable. A community in which the leader and his followers come to terms through propaganda—whatever the merits of its content—is a community of lies.”
That’s it for me for today. We’ll see you back here tomorrow. Tech support questions? Email support@substack.com. Questions for me? Drop me a line: swift@thebulwark.com
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