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Zohranomics is an effective form of antifascist economic policy. The crisis of economic security that comes with basic questions of dignity & identity is being used by the far right. An agenda laser-focussed on the needs of ordinary people is the way out.
@JohnCassidy @NewYorker https://t.co/jCCCKgvCnO
What can we learn from our recent history? Of the way that the far left destroyed the center left? One big takeaway is that if a political movement does not police its ranks, does not draw lines, if it neglects to protect its borders, if it does not defend its sacred values, it cannot long endure.
What are those values?... See more
Bari Weissx.comI usually love @RayDalio but I think this is completely wrong.
1) The change in economic policy is to incentive more free market competition in industrial focus areas and remove sprawling bureaucracy that impedes effective decision making, otherwise we cannot build infrastructure... See more
Andrew Côtéx.com
The best short piece I've read on Trump's new Predator America- Brilliant and crucially important @FT editorial
America has turned on its friends - https://t.co/pVsC3aoObN via @FT https://t.co/oFU2d0gZgc
Europe, as noted earlier, has in a short span of time gone from being the most predictable and stable region—one where history seemed to have truly ended (as suggested in an influential essay published in 1989 by the American political scientist Francis Fukuyama)—to something dramatically different. Democracy, prosperity, and peace all seemed
... See moreRichard Haass • The World
Arnold Kling, an economist, published a book a decade ago that offered a way to think about the core difference between progressives and conservatives. Progressives, Kling wrote, see the world as a struggle between the oppressor and the oppressed, and they try to help the oppressed. Conservatives see the world as a struggle between civilization and... See more
According to Putnam, the more we prioritize our private bubbles over public life, the more we disconnect from our local surroundings. This has weakened American democracy. Fewer people are engaged in politics, and those who do are often at the political poles. With less social capital, our neighborhoods are connected by fewer informal, reciprocal... See more