I've been thinking a lot about alternatives to the thin and dusty conception of liberalism we're now overfamiliar with, and this essay by @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.comwww.liberalcurrents.com/against-the-...

Against the Slave Power: the Fugitive Liberalism of Frederick Douglass

Douglass elaborated a political theory from his experiences as a slave, where institutions were directed against people like him. He had to become attuned to the differential character of law as it ap...

Harris should give Teen Vogue the sit down and I'm 100% not fucking kidding here

One consistent thing with this bit of anecdata is that the MAGA signs seem to be as strong as ever in wealthier areas but less so in more working class ones

my take on the "harris hasn't done an interview" thing is that it's generally right, and she should, soon, with a paper that is not the new york times and maybe also not the washington post

this is why the insistence by centrist pundits that walz somehow alienates moderates is bizarre and really demonstrates the extent to which they are out of touch with how normal people perceive politics

We didn’t get the “Dems in Disarray” and “Chaos at the Convention” stories we wanted, but we can still salvage this, dammit.

The women’s road race in Tokyo was pretty exciting, but today’s race, with US cyclist Kristen Faulkner’s unexpected charge at the end, was something else. What an absolute bossing of the field.

Everyone appeared to be gassed. She did well making sure Kopecky did a lot of the work as they caught up with Vos and Vas. She definitely looked stronger in the pursuit, but Kopecky and Vos are able sprinters, so there was a possibility they could turn up the pace, if they still had anything left.

the irony is biden dropped out because people thought his brain didn’t work anymore yet he seemingly evaluated the whole situation in an almost infinitely smarter and more levelheaded way that 90% of his colleagues and 99% of pundits

Great piece, Ben. I’m glad I also skipped it. Reading this, I was trying to remember what was written in the review at the time that made me skip it, especially since I wasn’t yet clear about my unhappiness with the Clinton era. This reminds me of it.