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"Devil's Advocate" questions and 'Open Mind" seem like euphemisms for moral weakness.

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There seems to be a pretty even distribution of top scorers on the left and right side of the political spectrum (I count 7-3 in favor of the left, but opinions on what counts as left vs right may vary).

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Quick question about the league leaders: "The final category leaders were Robert Wright, Nate Silver, Richard Hanania, Jonathan Turley, Tyler Cowen, Amanda Ripley, Scott Alexander, Emily Oster, Daniel Kahneman, and Cass Sunstein." What is an efficient way to follow some or all of the above leaders and others? Subscribe to blogs? Follow on Twitter or other social site? Thanks for the guidance.

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I cannot think of any major media institution that I would trust to administer such a thing fairly. All the major media seem determined to keep the soldier mindset and to silence the same set of views that Facebook and Twitter silence. Indeed this agreement between them, and its changes with time, are both so complete and so synchronized that I cannot believe they are coincidence; thus I see the Deep State as the most likely explanation.

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Perhaps instead of a media company, this I.P. should go to a bipartisan or centrist think tank such as the Bipartisan Policy Center or similar organization. Or hire a young go-getter to manage it and sell subscriptions on Substack to generate revenue to pay his or her salary.

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Bob Wright's weekly podcasts with Mickey Kaus were especially rich in points across several categories. The two produced a pair of podcasts over Memorial Day weekend totalling ~3 hours that I still have not found time to listen to, so his final tally may have been as much as 15-20% higher. In retrospect, I should have had Mickey on my team as well.

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Early today, I comment on one of Tyler Cowen's posts and the entertainment value of most of Tyler's posts. When you started your project I could see only some entertainment value, and today I think I was right not to pay attention to its development. Since the supply of entertainment is quite large because of the many ways to satisfy the demand, I wonder why some media would become interested in your project.

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