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<title><![CDATA[David Samuels - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/27803.xml</link><description><![CDATA[David Samuels]]></description><category domain="27803">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[The Kaaba at Ground Zero]]></title>
							<link>https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/kaaba-ground-zero</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Samuels</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One of the most bizarre yet prevalent phenomena of the digital information age is a form of reality blindness that quickly afflicted large numbers of people all at once and has since become a permanent-seeming part of the social and political landscape.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Bob Dylan Fought the Proto-Woke]]></title>
							<link>https://unherd.com/2025/01/bob-dylan-fought-the-proto-woke/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Samuels</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The American birthright entails both the freedom and often times the necessity of making yourself up from scratch.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Obama Built a Thought Machine, and How It Was Beaten]]></title>
							<link>https://www.tabletmag.com/feature/rapid-onset-political-enlightenment</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 19 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Samuels</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If anyone in the future cares enough to write an authentic history of the 2024 presidential campaign, they might begin by noting that American politics exists downstream of American culture, which is a deep and broad river. Like any river, American culture follows a particular path,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Time Has Now Arrived for Obama To Leave Washington]]></title>
							<link>https://unherd.com/2024/11/how-trump-crushed-obamas-legacy/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 09 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Samuels</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As the leader of the Democratic Party, Obama was hardly a pretender to power in Washington. Rather, between 2008 and the evening of 5 November 2024, he was usually the foremost power in the land. After serving two elected terms in the White House, Obama then set up and captained the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Brides of the State: Foot Soldiers of the Democratic Party]]></title>
							<link>https://unherd.com/2024/08/the-march-of-kamalas-brides/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 14 Aug 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Samuels</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In a recent appearance before the National Association of Black Journalists, Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump caused a furore by questioning the racial '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'identity'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' of Democrat Kamala Harris. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Is she Indian or is she black?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Trump wondered. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'I respect...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Next Four Months Will Be a Political War Without Limits]]></title>
							<link>https://unherd.com/2024/07/america-is-at-war-with-itself/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Samuels</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In a moment of raw personal courage at local fair-grounds in Butler, Pennsylvania, Donald Trump upended America'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s presidential race by surviving an assassin'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s bullet and then leaping to his feet and punching the air while proclaiming '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'USA!'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' and '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Fight! Fight!...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Caused the American Crack-Up?]]></title>
							<link>https://unherd.com/2024/01/the-american-crack-up/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Samuels</author>
							<description><![CDATA[F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote that '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';'. His formula is justifiably famous, but it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s worth noting that it comes from an...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hip-Hop Is the Soul of Free America]]></title>
							<link>https://unherd.com/2023/08/hip-hop-is-the-soul-of-free-america/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 13 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Samuels</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It is our only cultural defence against sterile conformity]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Obama Factor]]></title>
							<link>https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/david-garrow-interview-obama</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 03 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Samuels</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There is a fascinating passage in Rising Star, David Garrow'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s comprehensive biography of Barack Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s early years, in which the historian examines Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s account in Dreams from My Father of his breakup with his longtime Chicago girlfriend, Sheila Miyoshi Jager.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America's Pop-Culture Armageddon]]></title>
							<link>https://unherd.com/2023/07/americas-pop-culture-armageddon/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Samuels</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When the great American critic HL Mencken wrote his great essay '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'The Sahara of the Bozart'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' in 1917, lamenting the absence of high-level American minds equal to those of Europe, especially in the South, he badly missed the mark. America is not Europe. Her cultural genius lay...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Left Pursuing a Second American Revolutionary War]]></title>
							<link>https://unherd.com/2023/07/the-puritan-spirit-of-americas-civil-war/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Samuels</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It is hard not to look at modern America without getting the sense of a country that is frantically shedding its skin, in the process of becoming something new. But what will that be?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The RFK Jr. Tapes]]></title>
							<link>https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/robert-f-kennedy-jr-interview-david-samuels</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Samuels</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Democratic presidential candidate and America'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s most prominent '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('˜').';'conspiracy theorist'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' talks about his family, the military-pharmaceutical complex, and our new system of social control]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Battle To Control America's Mind]]></title>
							<link>https://unherd.com/2023/03/the-battle-to-control-americas-mind/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 17 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Samuels</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Washington is waging an information war]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The New Americans]]></title>
							<link>https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/david-samuels-new-americans-gamestop-wallstreetbets</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Samuels</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In a moment of anger, chaos and disintegration, they gave us hope.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Big Tech Merging With Big Brother? Sure Looks Like It]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wired.com/story/is-big-tech-merging-with-big-brother-kinda-looks-like-it/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Samuels</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A FRIEND OF mine, who runs a large television production company in the car-mad city of Los Angeles, recently noticed that his intern, an aspiring filmmaker from the People'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Republic of China, was walking to work.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Aspiring Novelist Who Became Obama's Foreign-Policy Guru]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/08/magazine/the-aspiring-novelist-who-became-obamas-foreign-policy-guru.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fmagazine&amp;action=click&amp;contentCollection=magazine&amp;region=rank&amp;module=package&amp;version=highlights&amp;contentPl</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Samuels</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Picture him as a young man, standing on the waterfront in North Williamsburg, at a polling site, on Sept. 11, 2001, which was Election Day in New York City. He saw the planes hit the towers, an unforgettable moment of sheer disbelief followed by panic and shock and lasting horror, a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Did Vladimir Putin Bait a Trap for Obama?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/143492/samuels-syria-vladimir-putin#</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 04 Sep 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Samuels</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The nerve-gas attack that left an estimated 1,000 or more dead civilians foaming at the mouth last month in Damascus constitutes a national security risk that the United States cannot afford to ignore, President Barack Obama argued in his televised remarks on Saturday, because it...]]></description>
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