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Foxes and Lions: Russell Brand and the Weaponization of Scandal
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- The Reality Taboo
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- Apr 26, 2026
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- 3748
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Summary
Antidepressant use among American adults has quadrupled in a generation and a half, and Canada's dramatic expansion of assisted suicide may be part of the same story. Then Ness and Jeff turn to Burnham's The Machiavellians and apply it to the Brand scandal — the allegations, the timing, the 77th Brigade connection, and the Christianity pivot. Is this accountability, or elite competition by other means?