-Congress gave the Department of Defense $58 billion more than it asked for last year. That’s more money than the annual budget of many agencies that don’t kill people.
-Who’d have thought that an organization with the initials SS would find itself implicated in a far-right power grab? (Secret Service Jan. 6 text messages erased amid investigations.)
-FOIA Follies: Ivana Trump no longer has rights under the Privacy Act 
-The Fed stonewalled our inquiry of Jerome Powell’s alleged “wokeness”
-Anti-abortion freaks, John Bolton, Uvalde Police, the Musk family, Ruy Texeira, and Dr. Leanna Wen are nominated for the Garbage Can this week

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DSR 7/16/22: All My Apes Pentagon

Journalist Jacob Hamburger re-examines Allan Bloom's writing 30 years after The Closing of the American Mind - as campus politics and elitism are re-contested in American culture, conservatives and centrists alike are returning to Bloom's reactionary arguments in their attacks on today's left.

Jacob wrote the article "The Closing of the American Mind" for The Point magazine.

Elitism, campus politics and the ghost of Allan Bloom.

District Sentinel Radio is the latest project from Sam Sacks and Sam Knight--the two journalists behind The District Sentinel News Co-op. Devoted to watchdog journalism, District Sentinel Radio is the podcast arm of the co-op.

DSR 7/16/22: All My Apes Pentagon

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