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John Ganz

@lioneltrolling.bsky.social
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dottore, ingegnere, avvocato When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s — out now from @fsgbooks www.unpopularfront.news

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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 16h
The Lomez-Rufo podcast gives us a snapshot of the conservative movement's metabolism in action.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/from-shitp...
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From Shitpost to Bullshit
The Function of Conservative Intellectuals
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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
My, quite late, review of Anton Jäger's Hyperpolitics. www.unpopularfront.news/p/a-grin-wit...
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A Grin Without a Stat
A review of Anton Jäger’s “Hyperpolitics”
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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Erick Erickson suddenly got woke about the right's Nazi problem, but it feels like deja vu all over again. www.unpopularfront.news/p/better-lat...
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Better Late Than Never?
The Right Wakes Up to Fascism...Kinda
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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The weekly roundup.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/hyperpolit...
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Hyperpolitics Reconsidered; “The Crisis in Culture;” Workout
Reading, Watching 09.20.26
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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The real AI risk is to culture, and therefore to humanity itself, albeit in a slightly different way than is being said.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/reason-v-r...
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Reason v. Rule
The Real AI Risk is to Culture Itself
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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A reflection, 25 years later.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-siege
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The Siege
25 Years Since
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Sado @marinovic.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
When The Clock Broke By @lioneltrolling.bsky.social is a masterpiece. I came of age in the 90’s and so I am aware of most of these stories but I don’t think the avg person gets how much of history is rhyming right now. Rodney king and George Floyd Ross Perot and Elon musk It’s nuts. 1/2
Of course, Gates ostensibly believed that the officers should have been prosecuted.)
What Chief Gates knew was that the LAPD was as much about image as anything. Officers had to look tough, they had to look imposing, they had to look professional to represent the idea of an elite praetorian guard for society. This was part of their marketing to the public, as Parker had put it. The beating of Rodney King was its own kind of propaganda, in keeping with the LAPD's image, a propaganda of the deed: this was a message, a statement that this is what will happen to you. It was a message delivered many times before, but it was not meant to be seen by the entirety of the public, that stuff was just to be known about by certain communities.
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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Trump's economy, which was supposed to herald the return of industrial production, is producing more care workers than anything else.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/keep-a-hol...
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Keep a-hold of Nurse
The Contradictions of Trumpism
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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
A theory of the incelization of the lifeworld.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-inceli...
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The Incelization of the Lifeworld
A Bad Infinity
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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The meaning of the Loomer-Milo feud.— www.unpopularfront.news
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Unpopular Front | John Ganz | Substack
the junk shop of history. Click to read Unpopular Front, by John Ganz, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
A visit to Odysseus's Palace.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/travel-not...
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Travel Notes, Part 2
Odysseus’s Palace
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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
My reaction to the Trump beef import carve-out, "That sounds like some Third World shit." And it is.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/trumps-thi...
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Trump’s Third-Worldism
Nothing Left but the Mess
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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Marlene Laurelle compares Tim Snyder and Aleksandr Dugin; Ernst Cassirer's The Myth of the State; Sophocles's tragedy Ajax www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-dugin-...
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The Dugin-Snyder Complex; the Myth of the State; Hubris in Sophocles’s Ajax
Reading, Watching 08.23.26
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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
AOC should run for Senate and here's why.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/aoc-for-se...
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A.O.C. for Senate!
Not President
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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
A recent paper by two economists inadvertently paints a Marxian picture with orthodox economics.— t.co/nobCs31izi
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https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/marx-keynes-and-ai
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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
follow @800johnganz on instagram for paintings
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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
If you like my volcano paintings check out @800johnganz on instagram
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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
This is your brain on social media.— t.co/jQI4qvJClr
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https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/this-is-your-brain-on-x
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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
A little about my trip to Greece. www.unpopularfront.news/p/travel-not...
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Travel Notes, Part 1
A visit to the Hydra Historical Archive Museum and searching for silk
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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
My vacation reading list.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/vacation-r...
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Vacation Reading
Special Edition
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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Rubio's Cuba Report recalls a failed Red Scare from the Reagan era.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/little-red...
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Little Red Scare 2.0
Old Wine in New Bottles
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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Readings on the Odyssey: Daniel Mendelsohn, Eric Auerbach, Alberto Toscano, and, of course, Adorno and Horkheimer.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/odysseuss-...
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Odysseus's Scars
Reading, Watching 07.19.26
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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Yeah but Jay and I are fun to hang out with.
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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
For Bastille Day.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/today-is-b...
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Today is Bastille Day
The French Revolution as It Appeared to Enthusiasts
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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I'm writing another book
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/07/2026
if you need something to watch on this hot day, you could do worse than me and @lioneltrolling.bsky.social discussing the execrable Godzilla movie from 1998. youtu.be/dPMjTT0BaiA?...
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Unclear and Present Danger — Godzilla (1998)
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Some thoughts on Trump v. Barbara for the 4th.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/our-revolu...
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Our Revolutionary Birthright
Trump v. Barbara and its Meaning
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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
wow the were just like us (posters)
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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
@maxread.info and I return! www.unpopularfront.news/p/talking-wi...
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Talking with Max Read about SCOTUS, Zuck's Chain, Vibe Shifts, the Tate Bros. and more
Read Max and Unpopular Front Reunited
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Max Read @maxread.info · 30/06/2026
we're live on ... riverside ! riverside.com/studio/max-r...
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Riverside Studio
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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
@maxread.info and John Ganz show returning this afternoon
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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
“The executive of the modern State is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie,” thundered the prophet Marx in 1848. The Supreme Court of the United States in 2026 says “Amen.” www.unpopularfront.news/p/no-touch-m...
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No Touch Money
Making Sense of the Supreme Court
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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
The history of American decline; the relationships between Caesarism and conspiracy theory; a raid into Nazi-occupied France www.unpopularfront.news/p/american-d...
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American Decline?; "Anxiety and Politics;" Operation Chariot
Reading Watching 06.28.26
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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Alan Greenspan was an intellectual disaster.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/objectivel...
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Objectively Yours
Alan Greenspan's Legacy
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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Can it really all be so stupid? www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-dumbes...
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The Dumbest War in American History
And We Lost
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19/06/2026
on the latest episode of our politics show, @lioneltrolling.bsky.social and i talk graham platner and the maine senate race www.patreon.com/unclearpod/p...
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Unclear and Present Politics Episode 23 — The Platner Question | Unclear and Present Patreon
Unclear and Present Politics Episode 23 — The Platner Question by Unclear and Present Patreon on Patreon. Join Unclear and Present Patreon's community for exclusive content and updates.
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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
wow they are doing wokeness now
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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
My Sunday sermon on the Knicks.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/a-tale-of-...
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A Tale of Two Cities
A Lay Sunday Sermon on the Knicks
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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
My apology, such that it is, to the Brits; Knicks on fire; old books I bought in Cambridge and London www.unpopularfront.news/p/knicks-fev...
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Knicks Fever; the joys and horrors of English Food; Old books in Cambridge and London
Reading, Watching 06.07.26
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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Do you understand that liberals don't dominate msm they used to? look at CBS, WaPo and LA Times. It's crucial that there's independent outlets for progressives and liberals now and you just wanna further marginalize them?
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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Here's why the Substack boycott is totally moronic, spelled out: Currently, there are some small far-right blogs and many giant and mid-sized liberal and progressive ones. If the boycotters had their way, the liberal stacks would leave, and that would leave the platform entirely to the far right
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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
If you are "substack is a nazi website" person I'm glad you don't subscribe to me because you're too stupid to read.
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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Once again this is so fucking stupid. The leading substacks are predominantly liberal and left-leaning.
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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
This is the dumbest fucking opinion on here, a place with many dumb fucking opinions. All the biggest substacks are superlibs—Heather Cox Richardson is pro Nazi? Paul Krugman? gtfoh
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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Is Graham Platner a Nazi? No, but he's not not a Nazi, either. substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Graham Platner is a Type of Guy
And You Gotta Decide What That Means
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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
My paper from Cambridge.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/how-the-cl...
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“How the Clock Broke”
My Paper for the Trump Mini-Conference at Cambridge
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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Letter from Cambridge.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/a-green-an...
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A green & pleasant Land
Reading, Watching 05.31.26
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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
They really are doing "say what you like about the tents of National Socialism but at least it's an ethos"
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Michael LaFrance @mlafrance.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines
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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
This sounds like he's gay
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