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Are You Feeling Politically Homeless?
If you are an ordinary, i.e., non-overclass, American, Michael Lind explains why you might be feeling that neither party represents your values or your interests: …the center of gravity of the overclass is center-right (promarket) on economic issues and center-left (antitraditional) on social issues. In comparison, the center of gravity of the much larger working
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Quote of the Day: J. V. Last
Dune is the story of how the indigenous people find their savior—he is called Muad'Dib—who leads them to overthrow the empire and take control of their home planet. How does he do it? By threatening to destroy the spice. Muad'Dib explains his insight this way: The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control
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How Not to Defend Liberalism
Instead of class conflict, politics became a battle between two cultural factions, neither of which represented the working class. On the left side of these politics are many professionals whose concerns for equality have narrowed to involuted and essentialized conceptions of race and gender detached from the real material needs of the marginalized groups they
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Freddie de Boer on Class-First Politics (Updated)
I myself am a class-first leftist, and indeed the penultimate chapter of my new book is titled “Why is Class First?” And the answer is that class comes first because class approaches to politics are the best approach to combating injustice, including racial injustice. Being class-first is an instrumental position, not a moral one; it’s
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Consensus Reality and Conspiracy Theories
I understand the impulse to believe conspiracy theories. It comes from a largely correct view that most people are living in a consensus trance. It comes from that feeling that Neo had before he took the red pill: Something is deeply wrong. Why does everyone around me seem to accept these attitudes and behaviors that
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CNN and Bias in Journalism
Journalism can never be unbiased because human beings can never be unbiased. The best we can expect from journalists, as is the best we can expect from human beings, is that they give a reasonable account in defense for their more controversial stories. So what constitutes a reasonable account? Well first of all a firm
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Normies vs Kooks
Is there a scenario in which DeSantis can win the GOP nomination? Maybe. I don't think that DeSantis or any of the others running for the GOP nomination can win the nomination unless Trump's legal problems cripple his candidacy. We just don't know yet how the coming indictments will affect him politically. For now, at
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Why I Prefer Trump 2
From a Firing Line interview with Charlie Sykes: HOOVER: So, Charlie, what happens in a general election then if it is Trump versus Biden? SYKES: Then I think the election becomes a referendum on Donald Trump. And I think this is the decision the Republicans have to make. HOOVER: A referendum on Trump? SYKES: Yes,
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Why I Prefer Trump 1
There are pundits like Damon Linker who want us to fear a Trump candidacy more than a DeSantis one. I fear DeSantis more. The problem for me with DeSantis is not that he will be more competent and effective authoritarian than Trump was–that's a toss-up. I fear him more than Trump because he's more electable
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Freddie de Boer on Today’s Left
In his post today: In 2016, it certainly seemed like the Bernie Sanders-Hillary Clinton split was defining a dynamic that would last for a long time: class-focused socialists bent on dramatic change opposed by centrists who weaponized identity politics to try and stop that change. It was very common for people to assume that this