Everyone should be skeptical of Nate Silver

And anyone touting the lab-leak 'theory' of COVID's origin at this point

Reading, listening, posting (7.21.23)

Trump is planning to ratchet up the authoritarianism in a second term

Plus: The failed college quarterback turned reactionary TikToker he's put at the helm

Substack triples down

And: The best things to read on the big Hollywood strike

Attack of the planet-killing idiots

Here's a 'major question': Can humanity survive?

The right to be an asshole

Free speech and conservatism

July 4th in history

Hanania backers include sex site mogul and Tyler Cowen

Plus: My theory on why Silicon Valley bros love this racist grifter. (Hint: It has to do with the future.)

Invite your friends to read The Racket

Who cares where COVID came from?

I do, for one. But some motivations are better than others.

Spies just killed the lab leak theory (for now)

The theory is dead. Long live the conspiracy theories.

Who is Richard Hanania's mysterious benefactor?

Or, who needs a newsletter when you can pay yourself nearly $300,000 out of your own 'nonprofit'