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Re:Slower News by segfaultbuserr on Friday December 25, 2020 @07:24AM (#25536064)
It's not a bug, it's a feature.

I understand it as the author's own news selection that reflects his interests, it's only published publicly "in the hope that it will be useful to others, but without any warranty" (borrowing the language of GPL). You are free to find and sort out your own sources of news.

Author said,

> How do you curate articles?

> I cherry-pick articles that dissect trends or unveil lesser known trends and interesting edge cases, and are relevant, at least, for some months. It's certainly affected by my biases (I'm aware of these: Western culture (European flavour), loose minimalism, loose intelectualism, centrism, agnosticism and I'm male. Trained as an housing architect) and most articles on main page were on Hacker News. The articles' listing order is, often, not random.

Re:Slower News by xiphias2 on Friday December 25, 2020 @08:11AM (#25536268)
You can submit a pull request if you have something interesting and timeless
Re:Slower News by mckirk on Friday December 25, 2020 @07:50AM (#25536160)
Could you give some examples of actually 'worthwhile' right-wing/conservative perspectives? I'm genuinely curious, because it's quite hard to tell whether these views get suppressed in my filter bubble, or if there just aren't many worth examining.
Re:Slower News by jpxw on Friday December 25, 2020 @08:05AM (#25536234)
Just as one arbitrary example, perhaps look into Roger Scruton. His work on architecture is a good introduction, for example Why Beauty Matters: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bHw4MMEnmpc.

Like most good conservative thinkers, he’s no longer with us. I recommend him because he’s not overtly political. The best conservative thinkers stay out of the boring political quarrelling, IMO.

Re:Slower News by pjc50 on Friday December 25, 2020 @08:09AM (#25536252)
.. do you have any examples that are still alive? "Welcome to conservativism, all our best thinkers are dead" isn't a great pitch.
Re:Slower News by Veen on Friday December 25, 2020 @09:08AM (#25536559)
He died earlier this year, so he's not entirely outdated (although judging thinkers by their expiry date does not seem sensible regardless).

Others still alive worth reading include:

- Douglas Murray

- Patrick Deneen

- Theodore Dalrymple

- John Gray (although not easily categorized as a conservative)

- Sohrab Ahmari (although if you are averse to religious discourse, perhaps not)

Re:Slower News by Taikonerd on Friday December 25, 2020 @12:57PM (#25537917)
I'd recommend Ross Douthat, currently with the NYT, and Andrew Sullivan, on Substack.
Re:Slower News by tormeh on Friday December 25, 2020 @10:18AM (#25536914)
To be fair, the defining trait of conservatives is that they think ideas don't expire all that quickly. It makes sense that they'd hold dead thinkers in higher regard than others would.
Re:Slower News by throwawaylolx on Friday December 25, 2020 @12:33PM (#25537757)
All the best left-wing thinkers are also dead.
Re:Slower News by mshanowitz on Friday December 25, 2020 @01:03PM (#25537954)
Jordan Peterson?
Re:Slower News by jpxw on Friday December 25, 2020 @01:16PM (#25538028)
I’m not sure I’d call Peterson conservative or right-wing. A great thinker though, for sure.
Re:Slower News by rufus_foreman on Friday December 25, 2020 @01:53PM (#25538245)
There are many different right-wing factions, I don't know exactly what you mean by "worthwhile", if you want to understand what is happening in the world, you might want to at least be familiar with the main ones and their world views.

For libertarianism maybe read Reason. For the neo-cons it would be the National Review, for paleo-cons, the American Conservative. For the business or free market conservatives, the Heritage Foundation or AEI. For unabashedly pro-Trump conservatives, it would be the American Spectator. For the religious right, no idea what you would read there.

It's very different from the left wing stuff I read in that the right-wing groups mainly have a single thread in common, a skepticism of centralized government control, whereas the liberal sources that I read all seem to share more of a common ideology.

Re:Slower News by everybodyknows on Friday December 25, 2020 @09:32AM (#25536671)
George F. Will

Thomas Sowell

Kori Schake

Jeff Flake

And almost anyone who has resigned in protest from the current US administration: Mattis, McMaster, ...

Re:Slower News by cubano on Friday December 25, 2020 @09:20AM (#25536613)
The brillant writings of F.A. Hayak could very well interest those with an open mind to such things.
Re:Slower News by jyounker on Friday December 25, 2020 @05:45PM (#25539652)
Although almost nobody who reveres him seems to notice that his policies assume a basic level of universal healthcare and significant government assistance during economic downturns, since he writes about these almost as a side-note.
Re:Slower News by cubano on Friday December 25, 2020 @05:48PM (#25539668)
Which is why exactly I call his writing brillant...he seems to be able to express a consevatism that also has a soul.
Re:Slower News by throwawaylolx on Friday December 25, 2020 @12:23PM (#25537689)
Nick Szabo
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Re:Slower News by coldtea on Friday December 25, 2020 @07:07PM (#25540188)
>The right always does; that's why it's a regressive, self-destructive faction

Thanks for the informed opinion