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  • Any Cook Can Govern: Populism and Progressivism

    Any Cook Can Govern: Populism and Progressivism

    I have lots of feels and lots of arguments about these two pieces by Peter Levine on an alt-left populism: “pluralist populism” and “separating populism from anti-intellectualism.” (This post on identity politics is also relevant.) Peter even goes so far as to call himself a populist, which is a surprising move to restore the term’s…

  • Race, Income, and Elections: The White (Male?) Working Class

    Race, Income, and Elections: The White (Male?) Working Class

    In my last post before the election, I quibbled with Peter Levine’s strategic argument that Trump’s supporters might be momentarily richer than average, but only because they were older, maler, and whiter. I worried that it was a kind of mistake, even if it’s perhaps an analytic effort designed to enhance our ability and willingness to achieve strategic…

  • Explainer Journalism Needs Better Explanations

    Explainer Journalism Needs Better Explanations

    Corey Robin got some nice jabs in at the current class of younger non-academic pundits a while back: A lot of these pundits and reporters are younger, part of the Vox generation of journalism. Unlike the older generation of journalists, whose calling card was that they know how to pick up a phone and track down a…