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TheAgeofShoddy
Yglesias was the front man for a highly-capitalized wonk shop predicated on the idea of intellectuals having the capacity to rapidly change the way people live through influencing top-down policy.
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Let’s talk about this.https://twitter.com/DKThomp/status/1360585604350808066 It is now so widely recognized that turning the screws on people indefinitely is counterproductive that even the New York Times- that odious ziggurat of upper
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One of the most consistent features of twitter, and the world generally now, is how much of the worst behavior comes from people acting under their own names, precisely because
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The issue described here is the inability of people to actually *think*, based on probabilities and causal mechanisms, and instead taking refuge in the rote application of procedure- in this
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The lie these people tell is that anyone who disagrees with them “doesn’t understand science” or “denies science.”The reality is that when push came to shove and things got real,
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I lived the first 35 years of my life in a walkable community and it kind of sucked.https://twitter.com/Bro_Neill/status/1348355127216910336 Everything in New York is 45 minutes to an hour from everything
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This remains one of the key points about where we are and how we got here.https://twitter.com/wesyang/status/1347529122419978242 How could Donald Trump and Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz, cynical-to-the-bone players of games,
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Measured yes, but not uncontroversial, in large part because there is unspoken agreement among many today that violence is not only a legitimate form of political expression, but is in
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The combination of the Trump years and the ongoing social-commercial adoption of “diversity” as both an economic good and a cultural identification of the upper class ensured that the concept
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One thing I don’t think the people emphasizing unemployment insurance and peripherals as a part of aid realize is that, on an emotional and perhaps moral level, a lot of
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I have a small number of very old, very dear friends who I love with all of my heart and who I know love me. And the single most ridiculous
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One consistent feature of institution discourse is that it takes place at the level of the existing bodies and bureaucracies and their opponents, and not at the level of the
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