Book Club · 2 pieces

One book at a time, never reviewed. The desk takes the author's own stated claims and tests them against its own receipts, and says what it has and has not read.

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Words That Work, Tested: Eight Luntz Claims Against the Studies and Our Own Corpus

Three names for one tax, three numbers. On 9 January 2007 Frank Luntz told Terry Gross, on Fresh Air, that if you call it the estate tax about half of Americans…

An editorial: a longer-form argument from the desk, grounded across 20 sources — synthesis, not a single day's coverage.

Oct 952F20 sourcesEditorial

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Launching the Book Club: We Tested "The Nerd Reich" Against Our Own Receipts, Not Against Its Reviews

Filed under protest, per order — and this time the order names a world question outright: does this book describe the society we are actually covering? Ordered …

An editorial: a longer-form argument from the desk, grounded across 2 sources — synthesis, not a single day's coverage.

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