As you can imagine, the next episode of The Phileas Club is likely to be… interesting. I’ve been thinking a lot about the result of the US election, and here are some of the articles I think are the most interesting. I hope they’ll be informative and of value to you as well.
- How Half Of America Lost Its F**king Mind
http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-reasons-trumps-rise-that-no-one-talks-about/ - What So Many People Don’t Get About the U.S. Working Class
https://hbr.org/2016/11/what-so-many-people-dont-get-about-the-u-s-working-class - Trump Was Stronger Where The Economy Is Weaker
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/trump-was-stronger-where-the-economy-is-weaker/ - They. Just. Don’t. Fucking. Get it.
https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/5c5ctg/they_just_dont_fucking_get_it/ - How The Media’s Email Obsession Obliterated Clinton Policy Coverage
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/11/02/how-media-s-email-obsession-obliterated-clinton-policy-coverage/214242 - The real Clinton email scandal is that a bullshit story has dominated the campaign
http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/4/13500018/clinton-email-scandal-bullshit - The myths democrats swallowed that cost them the presidential election
http://www.newsweek.com/myths-cost-democrats-presidential-election-521044
[Added Nov 18]
- This Is How Steve Bannon Sees The Entire World
https://www.buzzfeed.com/lesterfeder/this-is-how-steve-bannon-sees-the-entire-world - Safe Spaces — Sam Harris and Jonathan Haidt on the Disturbing Trend of Vindictive Protectiveness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K92rOsjyLBs - You Are Still Crying Wolf
http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/11/16/you-are-still-crying-wolf/
The episode should be out very soon, and maybe I can finally sleep again.
