More Speech About Speech
Hey all. Let's hop to it. Politics I don’t know that there’s ever an ideal time to be writing a book about ditching the Constitution, but it is a particularly odd moment for the project. While the deficiencies of our federal institutions have become more obvious
Mail Time!
Hey all. Going to be away from this till December, but here's a Mail Time post to tide you over. As always, send any and all questions to nwanevuletter@gmail.com. Let's hop to it. From Daniel: > I don’t have much substantial to say
Better Than Mid
Hey all. Let’s hop to it. Recent Work I did a first pass at a Midterms Take [https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/nov/10/why-democrats-had-best-midterms-presidents-party-years] for The Guardian last week: > Leave the rest of the numbers aside for a moment and consider these figures. The party of
Fellas, Is It Anti-Democratic To Defend Democracy?
Hey all. Let’s hop to it. Politics As you might have heard, there’s an election tomorrow. I was going to write about it today, but I don’t see the point, really. We’ll have concrete results to talk about tomorrow and in the days and weeks ahead.
Democracy: It's Complicated.
Hey all. Let’s hop to it. Politics Last week, I finished and turned in about half of my book on democracy — about 42,500 words, about 160 pages — which should be out sometime in 2024. What that means logistically for the newsletter is that I should get back to
“Transformative Politics”
Hey all. Let's hop to it. Politics A few days ago, the New York Times ran a guest essay [https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/07/opinion/obama-lost-book-manuscript.html] from the historian Timothy Shenk on a lost manuscript Barack Obama and his friend, the economics professor Robert Fisher,
Are Men OK?
Hey all. I hope to be back to regularity with this soon, but it's been rough with a major book deadline approaching. Until then, I'd like to make up for it with longish posts, like this one, when I can. As always, send in any questions
The “E” Word
Hey all. Let’s hop to it. Politics I have the same expectations for the midterms now that I did before the Democratic primaries in 2020 and even earlier, actually — whenever it was I first read, under Obama probably, that the party in the White House tends to lose a
No More Kings
Hey all. Let’s hop to it. Recent Work I did a column [https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/07/democrats-midterms-democracy-republicans] for The Guardian on Biden’s now-infamous democracy speech and how to run on the issue in the midterms and beyond: > [T]rumpism is the Republican Party’
Artificial Intelligence
Hey all. Let's hop to it. Politics Earlier this month, Politico ran a profile [https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/04/democratic-megadonor-sam-bankman-fried-00049048] of Sam Bankman-Fried, the 30-year-old founder and CEO of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, who’s quickly become one of the largest megadonors in Democratic politics.
