Presumably he was one of the more Marxist economics professors at Stanford.
It's funny how prominent men have to prove again and again that they're shallow thinkers before anybody believes it and smart women have to prove every day of their lives that they aren't and get treated like they are anyway
It is not necessary to tell us that you’re here because Twitter went bad. We know.
you know i don’t pay much attention to musk but this is…completely unhinged. like, if someone said this to you in person you’d be speaking to their family about how they need to get help
Exactly. If you are terrified of *checks notes* a disenfranchised group being able to vote, you might be worried about all sorts of things but "democracy being dead" is not one of them.
Right. If democracy means I don't get my way, that's not real democracy. (Editor's note: that is in fact the opposite of what democracy means, the thing you're looking for there is "being the king")
It was an honest question. I want to know how people like Yglesias create that image.
Something useful about people like Yglesias is that because they're ultra-shallow on topics like climate they just clumsily blurt out what a bunch of people believe, but know the field too well to say outright There was in fact a time when CDR's chief advocates really did say this out loud
I keep beating this drum but there are not a lot of past presidential candidates who have been the child of one pretty baller academic, let alone two