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New York just became the first state to halt new AI data center construction. Bernie Sanders and AOC want to take that policy national, and 63% of Americans agree with them across party lines. This has become the one truly bipartisan issue in our politics, but bipartisan doesn't mean good.
The concerns range from energy costs to water use to noise pollution. Some concerns are legitimate, some have already been solved, and others are simply based on false information. For better or for worse, technological revolutions usually aren't reversible.
So what will the future of the American economy look like?
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I sat down with economic historian Phil Magness to give Karl Marx the fairest hearing we could, and then find out how his ideas took over half the world and most of modern academia.
We get into:
* The historical context of Karl Marx’s writings
* Why surplus value theory made intuitive sense and why it’s wrong
* How the iPhone launch disproves Marx’s labor theory of value
* The unlikely story of how Lenin and the Bolsheviks took over Russia
* Stalin, Trotsky, and the “real communism was never tried” folks
* How Soviet propaganda helped resurrect Marx in the West
* Why Marx is read in every academic field… except economics
* How to minimize cost and Marxist indoctrination in college
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Outline:
[0:00] The “best” of Karl Marx
[11:21] What was Marx’s actual vision?
[15:24] Socialism Before Marx
[24:50] Is “capitalism” a slur?
[28:54] What’s the moral argument for land ownership?
[35:23] Labor theory vs subjective value
[46:07] Why Marx was left behind
[52:53] Marx’s math doesn’t work
[1:01:10] Why did the Bolsheviks pick up Marx?
[1:09:49] How Lenin conquerors Russia
[1:20:29] Was Lenin “not as bad” as Stalin?
[1:23:30] What did Lenin actually think?
[1:27:41] “Real communism has never been tried”
[1:30:24] Why academia loves Marx
[1:49:16] Does socialism have anything to offer?
[1:56:28] Is Marxism a religion?
[2:09:38] Modern Marxism is just woke mad libs
[2:13:41] “Cracks in the Ivory Tower”
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Last week, Zohran Mamdani “celebrated” this country’s 250th birthday by sitting behind George Washington’s desk and lecturing America about who we are. His own mother once said he isn't American at all, and never wanted to be. These days, most other countries have a higher opinion of the United States than Democrats.
Every immigrant who takes the citizenship oath swears to uphold values we’ve stopped taking seriously as a country. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court just upheld birthright citizenship, even for children born to parents with no allegiance to this country. Citizenship was once understood to be a responsibility, including civic and military participation, but not anymore.
The question is whether becoming a citizen means becoming an American, or if it’s just a formality.
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Check my sources over on Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/dadsavesamerica/p/mamdanis-own-mom-he-is-not-an-american?r=24ayxm&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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I sat down with Phil Magness, economic historian and author of “The 1619 Project Myth,” to discuss how the New York Times rewrote the founding narrative of the United States, first in print but eventually in schools nationwide.
We get into:
* How Phil caught a fabricated claim about Excel and plantations
* How the “new historians of capitalism” rewrote economic history
* Why Adam Smith, the father of capitalism, disproves the 1619 narrative
* Why libertarians and marxists united against the 1619 Project
* How Phil caught the Times quietly deleting its own claims
* The real story the Declaration of Independence tells about slavery
* How Britain and the US ended the slave trade
* The claim that slavery was the main driver of American wealth
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Outline:
[0:00] What is the 1619 Project?
[6:23] Was capitalism built on slavery?
[17:03] Southern culture was anti-capitalist
[23:02] Adam Smith on mercantilism and slavery
[33:04] How did the NYT get this so wrong?
[37:44] Was the revolution fought to preserve slavery?
[44:00] What did Jefferson think about slavery?
[49:26] The NYT refused to correct the record
[56:03] How slavery began to be abolished
[1:05:41] Slavery isn’t an American institution
[1:12:04] They hate capitalism more than racism
[1:20:02] Phil’s Twitter battle with Nikole Hannah-Jones
[1:31:48] The economics of slavery
[1:38:32] How should we teach about slavery?
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Most Americans can quote a line or two of the Declaration of Independence, but almost no one has actually read the whole thing. Today I'm going line by line to unpack what Jefferson was actually arguing and why it matters even more now than it did in 1776.
A generation raised with little independence and everything on demand can’t fully understand the values woven into the Declaration and how they apply today. In 2026, it isn’t all that suprising that Gen Z is increasingly pro-socialism and anti-patriotism.
Our creed won't pass itself on. That's our job as parents.
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Check my sources over on Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/dadsavesamerica/p/the-real-reason-gen-z-doesnt-care?r=24ayxm&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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