Eric Levitz
@ericlevitz.bsky.social
December 30, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Voters don't "hate" AI. And only a tiny share of them consider it a top-tier issue.
That could change. People are definitely anxious about the technology. But some recent pieces have wildly overstated the scale and intensity of the backlash thus far
www.vox.com/politics/473...
That could change. People are definitely anxious about the technology. But some recent pieces have wildly overstated the scale and intensity of the backlash thus far
www.vox.com/politics/473...
The political backlash to AI is overstated
Americans’ feelings about artificial intelligence are complicated.
www.vox.com
December 30, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Voters don't "hate" AI. And only a tiny share of them consider it a top-tier issue.
That could change. People are definitely anxious about the technology. But some recent pieces have wildly overstated the scale and intensity of the backlash thus far
www.vox.com/politics/473...
That could change. People are definitely anxious about the technology. But some recent pieces have wildly overstated the scale and intensity of the backlash thus far
www.vox.com/politics/473...
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I feel like "attention hacking" is most of politics now. The Minnesota aid fraud story is becoming a perfect example.
Recap: In 2022, the Biden DOJ filed the first charges against dozens of fraudsters, many of them Somali-American, who'd fleeced a state food aid program. (1/x)
Recap: In 2022, the Biden DOJ filed the first charges against dozens of fraudsters, many of them Somali-American, who'd fleeced a state food aid program. (1/x)
December 29, 2025 at 1:30 AM
I feel like "attention hacking" is most of politics now. The Minnesota aid fraud story is becoming a perfect example.
Recap: In 2022, the Biden DOJ filed the first charges against dozens of fraudsters, many of them Somali-American, who'd fleeced a state food aid program. (1/x)
Recap: In 2022, the Biden DOJ filed the first charges against dozens of fraudsters, many of them Somali-American, who'd fleeced a state food aid program. (1/x)
Rich nations are happier than poor ones. And poor countries tend to get happier as they get richer
Yet wealthy countries have been getting richer - without getting discernibly happier - for decades.
I wrote about one (not totally convincing) explanation: www.vox.com/politics/472...
Yet wealthy countries have been getting richer - without getting discernibly happier - for decades.
I wrote about one (not totally convincing) explanation: www.vox.com/politics/472...
December 17, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Rich nations are happier than poor ones. And poor countries tend to get happier as they get richer
Yet wealthy countries have been getting richer - without getting discernibly happier - for decades.
I wrote about one (not totally convincing) explanation: www.vox.com/politics/472...
Yet wealthy countries have been getting richer - without getting discernibly happier - for decades.
I wrote about one (not totally convincing) explanation: www.vox.com/politics/472...
Degrowth proponents often suggest that America can slash its resource use by over 50% -- while still expanding the *good* sectors, such as healthcare.
I think this betrays a naivety about how resource-intensive modern medicine is www.vox.com/politics/472...
I think this betrays a naivety about how resource-intensive modern medicine is www.vox.com/politics/472...
December 17, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Degrowth proponents often suggest that America can slash its resource use by over 50% -- while still expanding the *good* sectors, such as healthcare.
I think this betrays a naivety about how resource-intensive modern medicine is www.vox.com/politics/472...
I think this betrays a naivety about how resource-intensive modern medicine is www.vox.com/politics/472...
Americans' incomes are 26% higher than they were in 1996 -- yet our self-reported happiness has fallen sharply since then.
I wrote about one theory of The Thirty Years' Vibecession www.vox.com/politics/472...
I wrote about one theory of The Thirty Years' Vibecession www.vox.com/politics/472...
December 17, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Americans' incomes are 26% higher than they were in 1996 -- yet our self-reported happiness has fallen sharply since then.
I wrote about one theory of The Thirty Years' Vibecession www.vox.com/politics/472...
I wrote about one theory of The Thirty Years' Vibecession www.vox.com/politics/472...
The American electorate is historically old and getting older.
Seniors' growing clout will be a defining feature of our politics in the coming decades. Already, it is leading states to shift tax burdens from the old to the young www.vox.com/politics/471...
Seniors' growing clout will be a defining feature of our politics in the coming decades. Already, it is leading states to shift tax burdens from the old to the young www.vox.com/politics/471...
December 9, 2025 at 4:19 PM
The American electorate is historically old and getting older.
Seniors' growing clout will be a defining feature of our politics in the coming decades. Already, it is leading states to shift tax burdens from the old to the young www.vox.com/politics/471...
Seniors' growing clout will be a defining feature of our politics in the coming decades. Already, it is leading states to shift tax burdens from the old to the young www.vox.com/politics/471...
The White House argues that drug smugglers are terrorists who've effectively launched mass casualty attacks on the US -- and thus, our military has a right to bomb civilian ships suspected of carrying drugs.
There are a few problems with that argument
www.vox.com/politics/471...
There are a few problems with that argument
www.vox.com/politics/471...
December 3, 2025 at 7:34 PM
The White House argues that drug smugglers are terrorists who've effectively launched mass casualty attacks on the US -- and thus, our military has a right to bomb civilian ships suspected of carrying drugs.
There are a few problems with that argument
www.vox.com/politics/471...
There are a few problems with that argument
www.vox.com/politics/471...
Trump and Hegseth have argued for years that the US should commit more war crimes
Now, America is summarily executing suspected drug offenders, in defiance of myriad laws
Hegseth's criminality doesn't need to be uncovered. It's right there on the surface www.vox.com/politics/471...
Now, America is summarily executing suspected drug offenders, in defiance of myriad laws
Hegseth's criminality doesn't need to be uncovered. It's right there on the surface www.vox.com/politics/471...
December 3, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Trump and Hegseth have argued for years that the US should commit more war crimes
Now, America is summarily executing suspected drug offenders, in defiance of myriad laws
Hegseth's criminality doesn't need to be uncovered. It's right there on the surface www.vox.com/politics/471...
Now, America is summarily executing suspected drug offenders, in defiance of myriad laws
Hegseth's criminality doesn't need to be uncovered. It's right there on the surface www.vox.com/politics/471...
AI threatens to liberate the rich from their age-old dependence on ordinary people's labor -- thereby entrenching a permanent oligarchy.
My essay on that grim hypothetical is now out from behind the paywall www.vox.com/the-highligh...
My essay on that grim hypothetical is now out from behind the paywall www.vox.com/the-highligh...
The most likely AI apocalypse
How artificial intelligence could be leading most humans into an inescapable trap.
www.vox.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:28 PM
AI threatens to liberate the rich from their age-old dependence on ordinary people's labor -- thereby entrenching a permanent oligarchy.
My essay on that grim hypothetical is now out from behind the paywall www.vox.com/the-highligh...
My essay on that grim hypothetical is now out from behind the paywall www.vox.com/the-highligh...
Price controls are (usually) a bad way to distribute scarce resources.
If you're worried working-class people are getting priced out of certain markets, just give them money and tax the rich (while you work to increase the supply of the scarce good) www.vox.com/politics/470...
If you're worried working-class people are getting priced out of certain markets, just give them money and tax the rich (while you work to increase the supply of the scarce good) www.vox.com/politics/470...
Should the government just ban high prices?
Voters love this solution to the affordability crisis. They’re wrong.
www.vox.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Price controls are (usually) a bad way to distribute scarce resources.
If you're worried working-class people are getting priced out of certain markets, just give them money and tax the rich (while you work to increase the supply of the scarce good) www.vox.com/politics/470...
If you're worried working-class people are getting priced out of certain markets, just give them money and tax the rich (while you work to increase the supply of the scarce good) www.vox.com/politics/470...
No, the neo-Nazism of young Republican staffers is not driven by economic anxiety
www.vox.com/politics/468...
www.vox.com/politics/468...
November 18, 2025 at 2:58 PM
No, the neo-Nazism of young Republican staffers is not driven by economic anxiety
www.vox.com/politics/468...
www.vox.com/politics/468...
If you want to ask me questions about fully automated neofeudalism (or technically, "anything"), you can do so here at noon:
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You can ask your questions starting now, here: www.reddit.com/r/technology...
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November 7, 2025 at 4:10 PM
If you want to ask me questions about fully automated neofeudalism (or technically, "anything"), you can do so here at noon:
If you want a picture of a Democratic future, imagine hyper-engaged, suburban wine-moms stomping on J.D. Vance’s face — forever (or, you know, in the 2028 election)
www.vox.com/politics/467...
www.vox.com/politics/467...
November 5, 2025 at 10:04 PM
If you want a picture of a Democratic future, imagine hyper-engaged, suburban wine-moms stomping on J.D. Vance’s face — forever (or, you know, in the 2028 election)
www.vox.com/politics/467...
www.vox.com/politics/467...
Republicans have long worried that -- once Trump is gone -- the college graduates whom he alienated will remain Democrats, while the disengaged voters whom he mobilized will stop turning out.
The 2025 election results make that scenario more plausible www.vox.com/politics/467...
The 2025 election results make that scenario more plausible www.vox.com/politics/467...
This is how the Trump coalition unravels
The 2025 elections illuminate a nightmare scenario for the Republican Party.
www.vox.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Republicans have long worried that -- once Trump is gone -- the college graduates whom he alienated will remain Democrats, while the disengaged voters whom he mobilized will stop turning out.
The 2025 election results make that scenario more plausible www.vox.com/politics/467...
The 2025 election results make that scenario more plausible www.vox.com/politics/467...
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Anyway, if you think Zohran is an incredible politician and Spanberger and Sherrill are boring establishment mods, then you should take last night's results as evidence in favor of the electoral power of moderation. But also who cares in a sense, give me all the protected bike lanes please.
November 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Anyway, if you think Zohran is an incredible politician and Spanberger and Sherrill are boring establishment mods, then you should take last night's results as evidence in favor of the electoral power of moderation. But also who cares in a sense, give me all the protected bike lanes please.
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Zohran is a generational political talent and I'm very happy he's mayor and Cuomo is not. Also Spanberger and Sherrill do not seem to be generational political talents and yet they obviously did very well and Republican turnout cratered in their elections.
November 5, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Zohran is a generational political talent and I'm very happy he's mayor and Cuomo is not. Also Spanberger and Sherrill do not seem to be generational political talents and yet they obviously did very well and Republican turnout cratered in their elections.
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Base strategies are good at turning out your base. Just one small problem.
while the story in Virginia and New Jersey was heavily one of relative turnout, with far more votes than usual coming from liberal areas, this was not the case in New York
Republicans showed up in pretty clearly greater numbers than Democrats, motivated to beat Mamdani
but they didn't
Republicans showed up in pretty clearly greater numbers than Democrats, motivated to beat Mamdani
but they didn't
November 5, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Base strategies are good at turning out your base. Just one small problem.
Jacobin founder Bhaskar Sunkara argues that past socialist societies were wrong to think they could do without markets.
But he insists that modern economies *can* do without capitalists
I asked him: Why take that risk? Why not stick to what definitely works (ie Sweden)?
www.vox.com/politics/467...
But he insists that modern economies *can* do without capitalists
I asked him: Why take that risk? Why not stick to what definitely works (ie Sweden)?
www.vox.com/politics/467...
November 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Jacobin founder Bhaskar Sunkara argues that past socialist societies were wrong to think they could do without markets.
But he insists that modern economies *can* do without capitalists
I asked him: Why take that risk? Why not stick to what definitely works (ie Sweden)?
www.vox.com/politics/467...
But he insists that modern economies *can* do without capitalists
I asked him: Why take that risk? Why not stick to what definitely works (ie Sweden)?
www.vox.com/politics/467...
NYC's new mayor believes in democratic socialism
But how would a democratic socialist economy actually work?
To @sunraysunray.bsky.social, it would mean market competition and profit-driven firms - without capitalists.
We debated his vision of market socialism
www.vox.com/politics/467...
But how would a democratic socialist economy actually work?
To @sunraysunray.bsky.social, it would mean market competition and profit-driven firms - without capitalists.
We debated his vision of market socialism
www.vox.com/politics/467...
November 5, 2025 at 4:07 PM
NYC's new mayor believes in democratic socialism
But how would a democratic socialist economy actually work?
To @sunraysunray.bsky.social, it would mean market competition and profit-driven firms - without capitalists.
We debated his vision of market socialism
www.vox.com/politics/467...
But how would a democratic socialist economy actually work?
To @sunraysunray.bsky.social, it would mean market competition and profit-driven firms - without capitalists.
We debated his vision of market socialism
www.vox.com/politics/467...
Elites have always depended on ordinary people's labor.
Society has became more egalitarian as workers leveraged this power.
But there is a risk that AI will eventually erode elites' dependence on the masses -- and usher in a permanent oligarchy. www.vox.com/the-highligh...
Society has became more egalitarian as workers leveraged this power.
But there is a risk that AI will eventually erode elites' dependence on the masses -- and usher in a permanent oligarchy. www.vox.com/the-highligh...
November 4, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Elites have always depended on ordinary people's labor.
Society has became more egalitarian as workers leveraged this power.
But there is a risk that AI will eventually erode elites' dependence on the masses -- and usher in a permanent oligarchy. www.vox.com/the-highligh...
Society has became more egalitarian as workers leveraged this power.
But there is a risk that AI will eventually erode elites' dependence on the masses -- and usher in a permanent oligarchy. www.vox.com/the-highligh...
Robots can now do many parts of my job better than I can
This has made me a bit anxious about my own obsolescence
It has also led me to contemplate the one AI dystopia that I find plausible: A world where robots free elites of all dependence on most ordinary people.
www.vox.com/the-highligh...
This has made me a bit anxious about my own obsolescence
It has also led me to contemplate the one AI dystopia that I find plausible: A world where robots free elites of all dependence on most ordinary people.
www.vox.com/the-highligh...
November 4, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Robots can now do many parts of my job better than I can
This has made me a bit anxious about my own obsolescence
It has also led me to contemplate the one AI dystopia that I find plausible: A world where robots free elites of all dependence on most ordinary people.
www.vox.com/the-highligh...
This has made me a bit anxious about my own obsolescence
It has also led me to contemplate the one AI dystopia that I find plausible: A world where robots free elites of all dependence on most ordinary people.
www.vox.com/the-highligh...
Highly-educated Democrats have very different priorities and policy preferences than Americans writ large. This is likely even more true of politically-engaged college grads.
The mood in our circles/social media feeds is not a reliable guide to public opinion
www.vox.com/politics/466...
The mood in our circles/social media feeds is not a reliable guide to public opinion
www.vox.com/politics/466...
October 29, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Highly-educated Democrats have very different priorities and policy preferences than Americans writ large. This is likely even more true of politically-engaged college grads.
The mood in our circles/social media feeds is not a reliable guide to public opinion
www.vox.com/politics/466...
The mood in our circles/social media feeds is not a reliable guide to public opinion
www.vox.com/politics/466...