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Richard J. Shinder

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Articles by Richard J. Shinder

  • Opinion

    Gym Etiquette, Risk Management and Social Credit

    As I was working out at my gym recently, my thoughts turned to social credit regimes, transparency and risk analysis. I beg your indulgence. Like most totems of civilized society, gym etiquette is on the wane. A fuller explication of the widespread barbarism and wanting couth evident on the typical gym floor is worthy of […]

    By Richard J. Shinder

  • Opinion

    From Amplification to Celebration: A Brief History of Tech-Enabled Ignorance

    Growing up, I don’t recall the words “disinformation” and “misinformation” being in common usage. While deception has been with us since the Garden of Eden, it took the advance of information technology to fully weaponize it. Yes, we had “modified limited hangouts”, misdirection and conspiracy theories, but by modern standards these were clumsy and easily […]

    By Richard J. Shinder

  • Opinion

    Understanding the Current Populist Moment

    The erosion of public trust in American institutions is among those perennial conversational parlor games whereby just when one thinks it can’t get any worse, it does. Gallup has surveyed the degree of confidence Americans have in various institutions, including Congress, the Supreme Court, Big Business and the like since the early 1970s. While the […]

    By Richard J. Shinder

  • Opinion

    The Nature of Order

    The dawn of 2022 finds the notion of public order back in vogue, after eighteen months of unchallenged lawlessness and disorder frequently endorsed by elites. Newly-elected Mayor Eric Adams of New York City has promised law and order to a city currently short on both, President Biden emphasized the criticality of the rule of law […]

    By Richard J. Shinder