John Cassidy
@johncassidysays.bsky.social
Economics writer at The New Yorker. Author of new book “Capitalism and Its Critics: A History from the Industrial Revolution to AI" and other beach reads.
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"After Zohran Mamdani’s victory, Republicans are fearmongering about Democrats turning socialist. Meanwhile, Donald Trump is busy taking stakes in private companies and ordering them around"--my latest column.
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Socialism, But Make It Trump
After Zohran Mamdani’s victory, Republicans are fearmongering about Democrats turning socialist. Meanwhile, Donald Trump is busy taking stakes in private companies and ordering them around.
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November 10, 2025 at 4:40 PM
"After Zohran Mamdani’s victory, Republicans are fearmongering about Democrats turning socialist. Meanwhile, Donald Trump is busy taking stakes in private companies and ordering them around"--my latest column.
www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...
www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...
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The seat in the British Museum where Karl Marx studied “productive forces”? It was G7.
Fun nugget. @johncassidysays.bsky.social really did his homework for this book
Fun nugget. @johncassidysays.bsky.social really did his homework for this book
November 11, 2025 at 12:35 AM
The seat in the British Museum where Karl Marx studied “productive forces”? It was G7.
Fun nugget. @johncassidysays.bsky.social really did his homework for this book
Fun nugget. @johncassidysays.bsky.social really did his homework for this book
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If you are around Providence on Friday come listen to @johncassidysays.bsky.social talk his wonderful book Capitalism and Its Critics. Its the one stop shop for anything worth saying about capitalism that anyone useful ever said...well worth the read
November 11, 2025 at 1:05 AM
If you are around Providence on Friday come listen to @johncassidysays.bsky.social talk his wonderful book Capitalism and Its Critics. Its the one stop shop for anything worth saying about capitalism that anyone useful ever said...well worth the read
Legit to ask what the Dems' exit strategy would have been if Trump/Rs had doubled down. But folding when your opponent is showing a queen high seems pretty weird.
November 10, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Legit to ask what the Dems' exit strategy would have been if Trump/Rs had doubled down. But folding when your opponent is showing a queen high seems pretty weird.
"After Zohran Mamdani’s victory, Republicans are fearmongering about Democrats turning socialist. Meanwhile, Donald Trump is busy taking stakes in private companies and ordering them around"--my latest column.
www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...
www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...
Socialism, But Make It Trump
After Zohran Mamdani’s victory, Republicans are fearmongering about Democrats turning socialist. Meanwhile, Donald Trump is busy taking stakes in private companies and ordering them around.
www.newyorker.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:40 PM
"After Zohran Mamdani’s victory, Republicans are fearmongering about Democrats turning socialist. Meanwhile, Donald Trump is busy taking stakes in private companies and ordering them around"--my latest column.
www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...
www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...
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Billionaire brain.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick: "Let's say Social Security didn't send out their checks this month, my mother-in-law wouldn't call and complain. She just wouldn't."
March 22, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Billionaire brain.
Yes, it's a political comment.
Sometimes, I just don't get it.
November 10, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Yes, it's a political comment.
Sometimes, I just don't get it.
November 9, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Sometimes, I just don't get it.
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‘When Adam Smith wrote “It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer or the baker that we expect our dinner but from their regard to their own interest,” he omitted any discussion of the unpaid work of his mother (& later his sister) that went into cooking his dinner.’ on.ft.com/4olyOut
What we still get wrong about women’s role in global economics
From the Enlightenment to today’s ‘tradwives’, three books look at the tension between production and reproduction
on.ft.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:12 AM
‘When Adam Smith wrote “It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer or the baker that we expect our dinner but from their regard to their own interest,” he omitted any discussion of the unpaid work of his mother (& later his sister) that went into cooking his dinner.’ on.ft.com/4olyOut
America lives in airports, but it hates being stuck there for hours and hours. The public pressure to reopen the government is about to intensify enormously.
November 9, 2025 at 1:58 AM
America lives in airports, but it hates being stuck there for hours and hours. The public pressure to reopen the government is about to intensify enormously.
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No other agency of the U.S. government has saved more lives per dollar than U.S.A.I.D.—it supplied medicine, food, and staffing for some of the most desperate and vulnerable. A new short documentary shows the impact of its dismantling. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/2a5Jm5
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
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November 8, 2025 at 6:00 PM
No other agency of the U.S. government has saved more lives per dollar than U.S.A.I.D.—it supplied medicine, food, and staffing for some of the most desperate and vulnerable. A new short documentary shows the impact of its dismantling. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/2a5Jm5
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This an inside the Beltway take. Regardless of their ideology, Democrats who ran on the cost of living and opposing Trump won big. Incumbency is now hitting the Republicans as it hit Democrats in 2024. Trump didn't abolish the laws of political gravity. He won the popular vote by 1.5%.
November 5, 2025 at 5:15 PM
This an inside the Beltway take. Regardless of their ideology, Democrats who ran on the cost of living and opposing Trump won big. Incumbency is now hitting the Republicans as it hit Democrats in 2024. Trump didn't abolish the laws of political gravity. He won the popular vote by 1.5%.
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Trump’s trade war has unfolded as a series of threats, announcements, pauses, starts and deals, and the coining by the FT’s own @robarmstrong.bsky.social of the term “Taco” — Trump always chickens out. Even with all the changes, the de facto tariff rate is at its highest level in nearly a century.
November 5, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Trump’s trade war has unfolded as a series of threats, announcements, pauses, starts and deals, and the coining by the FT’s own @robarmstrong.bsky.social of the term “Taco” — Trump always chickens out. Even with all the changes, the de facto tariff rate is at its highest level in nearly a century.
Building a gilded palace during a government shutdown isn't a good look.
November 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Building a gilded palace during a government shutdown isn't a good look.
This an inside the Beltway take. Regardless of their ideology, Democrats who ran on the cost of living and opposing Trump won big. Incumbency is now hitting the Republicans as it hit Democrats in 2024. Trump didn't abolish the laws of political gravity. He won the popular vote by 1.5%.
November 5, 2025 at 5:15 PM
This an inside the Beltway take. Regardless of their ideology, Democrats who ran on the cost of living and opposing Trump won big. Incumbency is now hitting the Republicans as it hit Democrats in 2024. Trump didn't abolish the laws of political gravity. He won the popular vote by 1.5%.
Pretty clear why Trump isn't attending the SCOTUS hearing on tariffs. He'd probably have stood up and contradicted his own solicitor general.
November 5, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Pretty clear why Trump isn't attending the SCOTUS hearing on tariffs. He'd probably have stood up and contradicted his own solicitor general.
Markets panic after socialist victory in NYC—oh wait a minute.
November 5, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Markets panic after socialist victory in NYC—oh wait a minute.
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Almost like 10 months of chaotic policy making and presidential power grabs and ICE raids and self-dealing and not cutting the cost of living turned off some voters.
November 5, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Almost like 10 months of chaotic policy making and presidential power grabs and ICE raids and self-dealing and not cutting the cost of living turned off some voters.
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Amusing to watch centrist Democratic consultants and commentators jumping aboard the Mamdani train. They know a phenom when they see one.
November 5, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Amusing to watch centrist Democratic consultants and commentators jumping aboard the Mamdani train. They know a phenom when they see one.
Amusing to watch centrist Democratic consultants and commentators jumping aboard the Mamdani train. They know a phenom when they see one.
November 5, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Amusing to watch centrist Democratic consultants and commentators jumping aboard the Mamdani train. They know a phenom when they see one.
Outside the Paramount Theater a crowd gathers to cheer the next mayor.
November 5, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Outside the Paramount Theater a crowd gathers to cheer the next mayor.
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Take it from me, someone who watches a lot of Jeopardy when political ads exclusively run: Every Mikie Sherrill ad was about lowering costs. So was every Zohran Mamdani. Moderates and leftists agree on what the message should be.
November 5, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Take it from me, someone who watches a lot of Jeopardy when political ads exclusively run: Every Mikie Sherrill ad was about lowering costs. So was every Zohran Mamdani. Moderates and leftists agree on what the message should be.
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November 5, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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Almost like 10 months of chaotic policy making and presidential power grabs and ICE raids and self-dealing and not cutting the cost of living turned off some voters.
November 5, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Almost like 10 months of chaotic policy making and presidential power grabs and ICE raids and self-dealing and not cutting the cost of living turned off some voters.