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So imagine you started a political revolution and asked the simple question “does this policy change reinforce or overturn our basic cultural messages?” Every time the policy or policy debate pushes culture in what you think is the right direction, just do it. Do it in the view that the cultural factors will, over some time horizon, surpass everyth... See more
Tyler Cowen • Trumpian policy as cultural policy
I Am Going to Miss Pitchfork, but That’s Only Half the Problem
https://www.nytimes.com/by/ezra-kleinnytimes.com
For people on the right, it’s sparked by horror at changing demographics and gender roles
Michelle Goldberg • The Darkness Where the Future Should Be
For Sand and Hunt, there is a clear understanding of what must be done. America needs a working-class media. It’s something that has preoccupied me for years. If we thought of it as precariat media, we would also include the falling middle class that I have called the middle precariat (including most freelance writers right now). After the 2024 ele... See more
America Needs a Working-ClassMedia
Here is an overt premise. There is just no way that 2004’s reelection could have taken place—not to mention extraordinary rendi-tions, legalized torture, FISA-flouting, or the 6
David Foster Wallace • Deciderization 2007—a Special Report
The death of Progress
unherd.com
Buchanan saw firsthand that the idea that the Republicans were a strong bulwark against progressivism was usually just that: an idea. The data suggested that the opposite was true. In fact, Republican politicians were far more effective at putting over progressivism than the Democrats because there was no one to their right to criticize them for do
... See moreMichael Malice • The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics
He was an old-school fiscal Republican until the advent of cable news. Now he believes whatever Bill O’Reilly tells him to, though he gets a bit confused as to why.