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Lalla Ward's avatar

Judd Legum, you have a new fan; what an interesting discussion on so many levels. Both your histories with Substack were so illuminating. So many of these platforms are constantly in danger of creating echo chambers. What I love best about The Bulwark is how it manages never to make me feel as if I am, by listening to it, creating a bulwark for myself against knowing what other people think. Yes, it massively reassures me that there are other people out there who think like I do, but not in a ‘we are right and they are wrong’ cognitive dissonance-boosting way, more by giving us facts rather than the ubiquitous bigotry in this bizarre world of ‘alternate reality’, thereby giving us considered reasons to think the way we do.

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