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For Your Own Good, Read Widely

If your media consumption is a steady diet of one-sided partisan news, you may start inventing catastrophes where there are none.

Jonah Goldberg
Nov 18, 2020
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Hi,

Here’s a small life hack: If you’re a right-winger, you should read more left-wing stuff, particularly if you currently don’t read any at all. And, if you’re a left-winger, vice versa.

I used to read a lot of left-wing stuff. Indeed, for years I probably read more left-wing stuff than right-wing, and I think it made me a better conservative. Sometimes…

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