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“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars,” Oscar Wilde had one of his characters say in his 1892 play Lady Windermere’s Fan. This week, Elon Musk managed — not for the first time — to be simultaneously in the stars and the…

Episode 2939: Frum on Gatsby, Trump the Fascoid and What It Means to Be an American https://keenon.substack.com/p/the-david-frum-show?utm_source=youtube

“That’s not the America that I believed in and that I chose to merge my fate with.” — David Frum on Trump’s predatory foreign policy What does it mean to be an American? It’s a slippery question — especially for those of us born outside the United States. Take, for…

Episode 2938: Jonathan Weber on Technology and Politics in the City By the Bay https://keenon.substack.com/p/save-san-franciscos-soul?utm_source=youtube

“The same creative and political forces that gave rise to [San Francisco’s] boom nearly engineered its collapse.” — Jonathan Weber In Hitchcock’s Vertigo, the quintessential San Francisco movie, the villain points to an old painting of the city and tells Jimmy Stewart that San Francisco has changed. The real city…