“If you want to feel like you are a genius—misunderstood, unappreciated by the world—there is a lot of support for that. There is a whole misinformation industry, a delusion industry.”
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Ask A Genius 1615: Jesus, Gospel Details, and the Politics of “Christian” Identity
“Community agitator, executed by Roman authorities, no investigation forthcoming..."
Ask A Genius 1602: Trump, Nobel Symbolism, and Ethical Conflict
Rick Rosner: Invoking the Insurrection Act could expand domestic deployment authority, but it does not allow a president to cancel federal elections. Scott Douglas Jacobsen: That leads to ethics: two narratives, one faith-based and transcendental, the other humanist and empirical. Who is winning, and at what cost in the U.S.?
Ask A Genius 1592: Paramount+, Landman, OnlyFans, and an AI “Soft Landing”
I started watching Landman on Paramount Plus, set in Texas's boomtowns, a modern tale of fortune-seeking among roughnecks and billionaires in the world of oil. Paramount Plus has decided to be the manly-man streamer. Taylor Sheridan seems to write about rugged people doing rugged shit and that seems the demo.
Ask A Genius 346 – Faith Given Up and Taken Away
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 346 - Faith Given Up and Taken Away January 15, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What are the problems of faith? We have been talking about these for some time. Rick Rosner: When we were talking, you talked about what we're talking about, which are issues …
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