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The Hello and welcome to behind the news. My name is Doug Henwood, two guests in two segments today,

not even a flirtation with heterodoxy by shoehorning two guests into a single segment.

Owen Higgins will talk about the new media landscape where pundits like Glenn Greenwald and Matt

Taibi are featured in outlets funded by tech broligarchs. And then Ronnie Grinberg will look at a

classic moment in modern American intellectual history,

the mostly Jewish, mostly guys around partisan review and the like who started left and ended up

mostly on the right. If you spent a lot of time immersed an online punditry, you may have wondered what

happened to two stars of that world, Glenn Greenwald and Matt Taibi. Once more or less in the left,

though perhaps they would dispute that, they now more or less in the left, though perhaps they would dispute that,

they now lean pretty far to the right, though perhaps they would dispute that too.

Greenwald was a sharp critic of the Bush-era Republican Party.

Now he carries water for Donald Trump.

Taibi once wrote scathing critiques of Goldman Sachs for Rolling Stone,

now he carries water for Elon Musk. Both now are

featured on media outlets like Substack and Rumble, which are financed by right-wing tech moggels

like Mark Andresen, Peter Thiel, and Elon Musk. At this point, one doesn't need to say too much

about Musk by way of introduction, the other two are less well-known. Both are venture capitalist and investors,

one of my favorite occupational categories. And Dresen got rich and famous 30 years ago as one of

the founders of Netscape, and Teal, along with Musk, was one of the founders of PayPal. He's also been

a long-standing patron of right-wing politics and politicians, most notably J.D. Vance.

Owen Higgins, his first name is spelled E-O-I-N, is just out with a book in these consequential unions,

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