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Scott Stossel
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National Editor, The Atlantic. Author of My Age of Anxiety and Sarge: The Life and Times of Sargent Shriver. Bostonian in DC.
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2/ so many gutting moment but this was among the first, from one of the world’s leading scientists on vaccines and immunology:
November 24, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Thank you! And Happy Thanksgiving to you, too.
November 24, 2025 at 1:07 PM
"To most of its adherents, liberalism means free speech, due process, rule of law, separation of powers, and evidence-based inquiry. It doesn’t join the quest for meaning and dignity that haunts our civilization."

www.theatlantic.com/books/2025/1...
An Anatomy of the MAGA Mind
Under Trump, post-liberal intellectuals have abandoned tradition for radicalism and scholarship for vulgarity.
www.theatlantic.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:58 PM
“'From my perspective as a scientist and someone who has done this her entire career, he has a lot of blood on his hands,' Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos, a top adviser on COVID vaccines for the CDC, who resigned in response to Kennedy’s new policy, told me."

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
Why Is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. So Convinced He’s Right?
How an outsider, once ignored by the public-health establishment, became the most powerful man in science
www.theatlantic.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:22 AM
“'To stay on course despite that jeering really tells you a lot about his messianic self-regard,' Mark Green, another former friend of Kennedy’s, told me. 'He is sadly off his rocker to argue that Biden was more anti-speech and fascist than Donald Trump.'"
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
Why Is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. So Convinced He’s Right?
How an outsider, once ignored by the public-health establishment, became the most powerful man in science
www.theatlantic.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Reposted by Scott Stossel
"Kennedy is a 'liar' and a 'terrible human being,' Paul Offit told me. 'If he has data showing he’s right, then fucking publish it. He can’t, because he doesn’t have those data.'"

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
Why Is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. So Convinced He’s Right?
How an outsider, once ignored by the public-health establishment, became the most powerful man in science
www.theatlantic.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:16 AM
"Kennedy is a 'liar' and a 'terrible human being,' Paul Offit told me. 'If he has data showing he’s right, then fucking publish it. He can’t, because he doesn’t have those data.'"

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
Why Is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. So Convinced He’s Right?
How an outsider, once ignored by the public-health establishment, became the most powerful man in science
www.theatlantic.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:16 AM