Sort of off-topic, but, ICYMI, thought I'd mention that Renata Adler's essay about the National Guard, prompted by Kent State, has a lot of interesting detail about this evolution. Some motivating screenshots follow

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More ICYMI than anything, but Renata Adler's essay about the journalistic consequences of Woodward and Bernstein has many sharp points about the fatal effects of the profession become a prestigious upper-middle-class pursuit.

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Possibly germane in the current context, something I wrote a few years ago about why the last Argentine dictatorship does not generate the degree of nostalgia one sees for its peers in Brazil or Chile

(tl/dr, terror and mismanagement ended up affecting the elite.)

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Just got it, looks great. Minor edit: there is no key to this graph showing what each bar-color represents re OpenAI revenue.

Some years ago I wrote about this fact, trying to explain one reason why the last Argentine dictatorship does not generate the degree of nostalgia one sees for its peers in Brazil or Chile (tl/dr, terror and mismanagement ended up affecting the elite).

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(‪@byyourlogic.bsky.social‬-ass name. )

Dmitri Rotov had a great series of posts on the subject of Lee's terribly-written orders,

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(For completeness and, if you're interested, to spare you a search, his other prophetic LRB piece was the fascism one. Its prognosis re the centre-left quite wrong and obviously there is much more than can be said about the causes, but otherwise holds up quite well.)

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v1...

This is basically a curiosity (and EL's recent work useless as well as repellent), but thought I'd note that one of Luttwak's two very prescient LRB pieces in the 1990s was precisely about what'd happen if central bankers were put in charge of macroeconomic management.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v1...

@jwmason.bsky.social Remembering a blog post you wrote in 2010 as the zombie craze really started gathering steam.

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Congratulations! (Pre-ordered myself of course, but was looking up link for a group.)