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I Am Going to Miss Pitchfork, but That’s Only Half the Problem
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Ezra Klein on Charlie Kirk:
“You can dislike much of what Kirk believed and the following statement is still true: Kirk was practicing politics in exactly the right way. He was showing up to campuses and talking with anyone who would talk to him. He was one of the era’s most effective practitioners of persuasion. When... See more
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
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“The social media platforms that hold and shape our attention need to be governed in the public interest,” writes columnist @ezraklein. Social media apps like TikTok collect data from the people who use them, and “that data could be valuable to foreign governments,” says Ezra. TikTok’s real power isn’t over our data though. “It’s over what users... See more
instagram.com"The fundamental thing the media does all day, every day, is decide what to cover — decide, that is, what is newsworthy... Here’s the dilemma: to decide what to cover is to become the shaper of the news rather than a mirror held up to the news."
Ezra Klein • Why the Media Is So Polarized — And How It Polarizes Us
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
Ezra Klein on what he has changed his mind most about:
I think the thing I’ve changed my mind most on in politics in recent years is how destructive bad regulations can be and how seriously I take it now when I hear that regulations or rules are ill constructed.
I think I used to have what... See more
Shift from economic to cultural voting patterns and growing wealth inequality in American politics
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But there is another story, which is that over the last 30 or 40 years, you are seeing a consistent shift of people moving away from voting purely their economic interests and voting more their cultural, gender, racial identity.
So if you go back 40 or 50 years, you could predict pretty tightly how somebody would vote based on whether they made more
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