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Spotify, Neil Young, and The Olds
Hey all. Forgot to put out a reminder to send in questions for Mail Time this week. So let this be a reminder to send in questions for next month! Let’s hop to it. Culture There are two conversations to be had about the Spotify and Joe Rogan controversy.
COVID Won't Be Over Until It's Over. And Probably Not Even Then.
Hey all. Let’s hop to it. Recent Work I’ve just started a column that’ll run every other month in The Guardian. My first piece [https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jan/21/bidens-administration-is-in-shambles-its-not-entirely-his-fault] was on Biden’s first year in office. The headline — “Biden’s administration is
It's The Constitution AND The Decline of Labor Unions, Stupid!
Hey all. Let's hop to it. Politics In my survey of writing about January 6th, I managed to miss one of the best pieces around on the democratic crisis and where it came from. In their anniversary essay [https://bostonreview.net/articles/the-deep-structure-of-democratic-crisis/?utm_source=Boston+Review+Email+
It's The Constitution, Stupid!
Hey all! Let’s hop to it. Recent Work You’ve probably read it already, but I had a piece [https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/04/opinion/capitol-riot.html] in the New York Times’s January 6th package this week. I focused on the institutional factors — including the Electoral
Goodbye, 2021.
Hey all! Let’s hop to it. Recent Work I have blurbs on Critical Race Theory and the billionaire space race in The New York Times' Year in Debates [https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/12/21/opinion/2021-essays-opinion.html] package. It's my first writing for the
“We Can't Govern!”
Hey all. Let's hop to it. Housekeeping I'm taking a break for the holidays, so there'll be one more post next week before the very end of the year. It'll be a Year in Review kind of thing as well as a
“The Angry U.S. Negro's Rallying Cries Are Confusing His Just And Urgent Cause”
Hey all. Let’s hop to it. Politics The New York Times’ Jamelle Bouie gave the newsletter a shoutout (Welcome, new subscribers!) in a recent column [https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/10/opinion/democrats-progressives-moderates-elections.html] on the Democrats’ interminable messaging debate, the subject of another recent column [https://www.
Can The Right Get Any Worse? (Yes.)
Hey all. Let's hop to it. Politics I’ve written in the newsletter before about Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker, admittedly less because I’ve been a close student of his governance than because I’m fascinated by who he is ideologically — a real deal Republican “moderate” in the
Giving Thanks for Survey Research
Hey all, I wanted to take a post to talk about a few recent polling reports I’ve been thinking about recently. Let’s hop to it. Politics Earlier this month, Jacobin and YouGov released a report [https://images.jacobinmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/08095656/CWCPReport_CommonsenseSolidarity.pdf] on
