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In our political typologies, it is liberals who embrace change and conservatives who cling to stasis. But that is not how things work when you compare red-state and blue-state housing policies.
Ezra Klein • Abundance
Josh Marshall • Trust, Bewilderment and Billionairedom: Understanding the Backlash Against Bezos
It was not the politics most Black Americans wanted of Jordan, especially not when, right outside of where he balled in Chicago, housing projects ate away at the lives of the descendants of migrants; especially not when in his home state Harvey Gantt, a Black man, lost in senate races to Jesse Helms, a former Klansman, twice. When appealed to for a
... See moreImani Perry • South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
The reality is that members of the American left have, whether they like it or not, become the new conservatives. At least in economic policy, they are usually the defenders of the status quo. In contrast, some of the so-called “conservatives” are the radicals seeking major change; at a recent public event, I heard two African American intellectual
... See moreTyler Cowen • The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All The Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better: A Penguin eSpecial from Dutton
Since the New Right is reactive in its strategy, with its players disposable, it is impossible to predict where, say, Mencius Moldbug will be three years from now.
Michael Malice • The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics
