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World Edition - The Atlantic
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Center-left's struggle with innovation while right-wing embraces risk-taking and new technologies in smartphone era politics
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Why do you think that is? I think that does get to the class issue that you were talking about.
The center-left got very comfortable being the kind of meritocratic, technocratic elite that always had the right answer, you know, the kind of smarty-pants answer that everybody in there would congratulate them on.
And the
... See moreArnold 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
Opinion | This Is the Way You Beat Trump — and Trumpism
nytimes.com
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The opinions of Matt Yglesias have been even more irritating than usual lately, so I have written a careful explanation of what makes his work so consistently wrong. His ignorant, callous, smug commentary should be permanently ignored.
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Are we living in a stupidogenic society?
substack.nomoremarking.com
Silicon Valley is an extraordinary theatre of sociology right now. Apropos of nothing, my observations about a few people I'm paying attention to:
- Why Sam Altman does interviews at all is beyond me. He's so verbally slithering it's an absolute insult to the public. He thinks you are stupid or too cowardly to say it... See more
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