political proverbs – The Homebound Symphony
It’s always hard writing your first piece of the year. But with the upcoming inauguration, Luigi Mangione, the ramifications of illegal immigration I see behind my home in New York, the safety of our public transportation system... I know that I am witnessing an avoidable decline. That our political expectations are embarrassingly low. And that we’... See more
Reggie James • Political Expectations
The system of checks and balances that I believed to exist in grade school has been shattered, as a man with a red baseball cap has torn down the curtain he didn't even try to hide behind. Our emerald city is bleeding and in between beatings we continue to drink the Kool-Aid and joke about moving across borders, when deep down we know we're too com... See more
Opinion | We Can't Scroll Past This Dark Hour for Medicine
Unfortunately, it has now become acceptable to think of the job of politician as one of the few that requires no training and no expertise. Amateurs are put into positions of immense power with only a rudimentary grasp of how governments actually work, how economies move, or how science shapes the world.
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
about the bleating idiocy of American mass media in the era after 9/11 and the run-up to the Iraq War. In it, he offers a thought experiment that has stuck with me. Imagine, he says, being at a party, with the normal give and take of conversation between generally genial, informed people. And then “a guy walks in with a megaphone. He’s not the smar... See more
Chris Hayes • On the Internet, We’re Always Famous
Classical Liberalism has had a good run. Now it’s about to get run over by a bus full of stupid “post-capitalist” political trends—the new socialism, the new nationalism, the new trade war mercantilism, and the new social media platforms that drive this bus.