Building a culture of abundance
Plus a lot of words about Graham Platner and Zohran Mamdani| Slow Boring
Plus a lot of words about Graham Platner and Zohran Mamdani| Slow Boring
It’s worth learning lessons from the wins of the past.| Slow Boring
Plus, which helps people more: houses or hospitals?| Slow Boring
It worked pretty well, but the situation has changed.| Slow Boring
Did we learn nothing from Signalgate? And other stories this week| Slow Boring
Competition, like most things, has its limits.| Slow Boring
If you’re streaming video, you’re not doing homework, reading, socializing, or sleeping.| Slow Boring
Plus Mamdani vs the establishment and the Free Press’s hustle| Slow Boring
It’s a fragile basis for growth, whether or not it’s a “bubble.”| Slow Boring
Some cities work to build more housing while others clean up after local scandals.| Slow Boring
“If we ever had a leak of this chat we would be cooked fr fr.” Are they?| Slow Boring
Endless establishment retreads are not the same as the center of public opinion.| Slow Boring
We have the day off, so please enjoy this photo I took in upstate New York early this spring and thread your thoughts below.| www.slowboring.com
Public transit is one of the safest ways to get around — it’s just too slow.| www.slowboring.com
Competition is good, smallness isn’t| www.slowboring.com
A new poll reveals a Democratic primary electorate that is older, offline, and pragmatic.| www.slowboring.com
Historians hate alternate history, but it's a good way to understand causal claims| www.slowboring.com
A break from actual news| www.slowboring.com
Habsburg federalism could have worked if not for an assassin's bullet| www.slowboring.com
In 1903, Serbia got a new king with a new anti-Habsburg foreign policy and the world got a Great War.| www.slowboring.com
Sixty percent of Americans are not struggling to get by| www.slowboring.com
Liberals should respect our heritage; conservatives should see that our heritage is liberal| www.slowboring.com
It started before Covid, and it keeps getting worse.| www.slowboring.com
A week in housing and a weekend of recommendations| www.slowboring.com
My take on the ongoing U.B.I. wars| www.slowboring.com
What schools can and cannot do for the students who need the most help| www.slowboring.com
Anatomy of a political dead end| www.slowboring.com
Treating people according to the content of their character is good, actually| www.slowboring.com
Changing the way doctors talk isn't nearly as important as the access-broadening policies the AMA has opposed| www.slowboring.com
The most important Econ 101 concept you've never heard of| www.slowboring.com
Getting the right answer matters!| www.slowboring.com
A wise middle ground between Trump's insanity and an unserious left| www.slowboring.com
Political elites justify polarizing decisions with self-fulfilling prophesies| www.slowboring.com
Cognitive behavioral therapy for Democrats| www.slowboring.com
A Harris administration should be open to private sector talent| www.slowboring.com
New evidence makes it clear that more lawmakers need to take the issue seriously| www.slowboring.com
The case for a new (shorter and more moderate) policy agenda| www.slowboring.com
We don’t talk much about the 1908 presidential election, but that I think it was fascinating. The race featured William Howard Taft for the GOP against William Jennings Bryan for the Democrats. By nominating Bryan, a candidate who had already run and lost on two previous occasions, the Democrats were practically throwing this election to the GOP. His signature issue in the 1896 (opposing the gold standard) didn’t really make sense in the context of 1908. And while his populist broadsides ...| www.slowboring.com
What we can learn from political outliers and the legislative story of their electoral success| www.slowboring.com
Joe Biden's America isn't perfect, but things are pretty good!| www.slowboring.com
The goal should be to push more kids into more challenging work| www.slowboring.com
Progressives should focus on building institutions up, not tearing them down| www.slowboring.com
And he needs an administration that believes in Bidenism| www.slowboring.com
Don't be a doomer, but don't take false comfort from 2022 either| www.slowboring.com
The best thing about the past is that things changed more rapidly| www.slowboring.com
In order to win, Democrats need to meet voters where they are| www.slowboring.com
Moving left on economics — but also on climate, race, and a bunch of other things| www.slowboring.com
Or, how a small middle-income island could save the world| www.slowboring.com
The back-to-basics populism that Democrats need| www.slowboring.com
Putin should just say no to pointless blunders| www.slowboring.com
Don't fight "cancel culture" by exaggerating its power| www.slowboring.com
Don't threaten to tank elections to get your way| www.slowboring.com
Especially about the future.| www.slowboring.com
A central issue in an intractable conflict| www.slowboring.com
The right abandons reform in favor of privatization| www.slowboring.com
The rise and fall of the "achievement gap" obsession| www.slowboring.com
The Supreme Court has struck down affirmative action, which was widely expected by people who pay attention to such things but Supreme Court decisions are in general hard to predict so even the “expected” is a bit unexpected. Because I expect the Dobbs decision and abortion rights to feature heavily in Democrats’ 2024 campaign, I expect there will be considerable pressure to fold this decision into a broader critique of right-wing judicial overreach and it’s important to understand that| www.slowboring.com
There's a neglected dimension beyond gender in America's troubled youth| www.slowboring.com
Can normalcy be made interesting?| www.slowboring.com
