Tim Barker takes issue with some recent pieces I have written and basically says that we have no reason to think that Harris's Israel policy will be different from Biden's. He could be right, of course, but I think we're going to have to wait to know newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
Gaza and the DNC.
Although she is not using the term "moral capitalism," it seems like Kamala Harris is leaning into Michael Kazin's advice from 2019. www.nytimes.com/2019/06/24/o...
Democrats used to embrace strong markets and strong government. They should do so again.
For my previous underestimate, I sincerely apologize
Picard approves
The key is to think of "conservative Marxists of the 1990s"
Nope, I think Ferguson would have hated the Marxism but this reviewer didn't
Guess who originally reviewed The Age of Extremes for TNR when it came out? He thought the book was great, especially when it seemed to acknowledge conservative truisms about women and family...whereas I found those sections weaknesses on my re-reading
As part of @tnr.bsky.social's "Does it Hold Up?" series, I re-read Eric Hobsbawm's The Age of Extremes, and found that the ways that it is bad are consequences of the ways that it is good. Instead of celebrating the triumph of liberal capitalism in the 1990s, Hobsbawm wrote an elegy.
Where some celebrated the triumph of liberal capitalism in the 1990s, Hobsbawm saw a failed dream.
~The~ magazine is up and active on BlueSky
It's an ancient bureaucracy, after all...