Political Musing
The Long Diminishment
Everyone reaches for Weimar eventually. It's not wrong. It's just not the whole story, and the part it leaves out is the part that actually keeps me up at night.
Political Musing
Where I spend way too much time reading about, thinking about, and writing about politics. It is just a reflection of how fucked up American politics is at the moment. Perhaps one day I will be able to write about Guitars again. I am not holding my breath though
Political Musing
The Permission Slip
Milton Friedman didn't invent greed. He did something more useful: he gave it a theory, a Nobel Prize, and fifty years of intellectual cover. The rest took care of itself.
Too smart to organize, now it's too late
Übermensch in a Cubicle Farm - Post 2: The Valley Mythology Machine
The white collars met management with a twist of No California wackiness, and the die were cast.
Political Musing
The Tribute Band Primary
Every candidate on this list is auditioning to inherit a coalition built entirely around one man's specific id. That's the tribute band problem. Tribute bands don't sell out stadiums.
Political Musing
The Ratchet Only Clicks One Way
On the doom loop, the Never Trump optimists, and the uncomfortable maths of where we actually are
Political Musing
The Billboard Won't Save You
Sarah Longwell is among the sharpest political operators working today. She is also, on this particular question, wrong. Dead wrong. Part 1 of a three episode arc
Political Musing
They Forgot to Outlaw Shamelessness
The $1.7 billion slush fund isn't just corruption. It's proof that the founders' whole architecture rested on something they assumed would always be there and isn't anymore.
Political Musing
The Wave, the Wall, and the 40 Percent
The pundit class' insistence that 2026 will be a wave year, and that Trump's flagging approval is a lock is not that comforting.
Tech
Übermensch in a Cubicle Farm - Pt 1: The Collar Color Was Always a Con
Why doesn't Tech unionize? It isn't difficult to suss out, but you have to look at it in context. This is the start of a weekly series about the "why"
The Useful Fiction
The Useful Fiction Act IV: The Political Fiction
Closing out, the accident that created what we call the middle class is about over. Sure, politicians will pontificate, but neither party is willing to do the work to keep it going.
The Useful Fiction
The Useful Fiction - Act III: Et tu donkey?
If you think that the Democrats are the party of the middle class, you're fooling yourself. But since the 1980's they've gotten on the gravy train, feeding at the trough with the Republicans
Political Musing
Bonus Post: The Podcast Class Discovers the Streets (From Their Studios)
Listening to the latest TNL this AM got my hackles up. The question of why aren't more people mobilizing really spiked my cortisol.