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Because it was posted by someone who didn't know (or did know) that the mag is wallpaper for The Manhattan Institute.

ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_Journal

ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._Casey#Return_to_pri...

Reading it for me it is clearly propaganda. I didn’t even know it’s link to politics until I read HN comments. The targeted social causes and logic hoop-jumping alone in the article is a pretty obvious sign IMO.

It is true that I don’t this publication. I also don’t know the author or what The Manhattan Institute is. In general unless a piece of text is asking me to take something on faith or I am unable to reason with it I don’t care in the slightest who wrote it, where it was published or what their affiliations are.

> In general unless a piece of text is asking me to take something on faith

The longer I live the more I realize I don't know. For me it means I have to have some trust in the people communicating with me - that they're operating in good faith. More so when their comms are persuasive arguments.

Without my trust + their forthrightness, I have to expend significant time and energy parsing and vetting their statements - for little practical benefit.

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