The Lens — How We Build It
Every day in The Lyceum, and every Sunday in the Sunday Edition, you'll find The Lens — a short section showing what right-leaning and left-leaning outlets are covering that the other side isn't.
We monitor eleven outlets daily, split across two tiers by signal quality. The gap between what each side covers is real, and we surface it without taking sides.
The outlet set
Right-leaning| Outlet | Tier |
|---|---|
| Fox News | 1 |
| Wall Street Journal | 1 |
| Washington Examiner | 1 |
| National Review | 1 |
| New York Post | 1 |
| Daily Wire | 2 |
| Outlet | Tier |
|---|---|
| The Guardian (US) | 1 |
| Vox | 1 |
| The Atlantic | 1 |
| NBC News | 1 |
| Mother Jones | 2 |
| Slate | 2 |
How gap detection works
Headlines are pulled every morning from all eleven outlets. Stories appearing in both feeds are universal — they're filtered out. What remains are stories prominent on one side and absent from the other. Opinion columns, celebrity content, and culture-war noise are excluded. The focus is substantive news: policy, foreign affairs, law, economics.
The Sunday two-perspective section
Once a week, the Sunday Edition adds a second element: the same story written from two distinct editorial perspectives — one conservative, one progressive. Both are grounded in the same facts. Both are written seriously, in the authentic intellectual tradition of each side. Neither is a caricature.
The two versions are presented unlabelled. Which is which?
Last updated: March 2026