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"We cannot win by letting the folks think the Republican party is 51% bad and we are only 49% bad"—Josephus Daniels on Democratic Party strategy in 1932 🗃️
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August 9, 2025 at 8:20 PM
"We cannot win by letting the folks think the Republican party is 51% bad and we are only 49% bad"—Josephus Daniels on Democratic Party strategy in 1932 🗃️
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From our latest episode “John Maynard Keynes’s Vision for a Future Utopia,” in which we discuss Keynes’s seminal 1930 essay “Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren.”
July 30, 2025 at 3:45 PM
From our latest episode “John Maynard Keynes’s Vision for a Future Utopia,” in which we discuss Keynes’s seminal 1930 essay “Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren.”
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From our latest episode “John Maynard Keynes’s Vision for a Future Utopia.” Source: “The Leisure Agenda.” By Ryan Cooper. Published by People’s Policy Project. #thehistoryonion #historyonion #history #economics #politics #keynes #keynesian #leisure #work #overworked #capitalism #neoliberalism
July 28, 2025 at 4:59 PM
From our latest episode “John Maynard Keynes’s Vision for a Future Utopia.” Source: “The Leisure Agenda.” By Ryan Cooper. Published by People’s Policy Project. #thehistoryonion #historyonion #history #economics #politics #keynes #keynesian #leisure #work #overworked #capitalism #neoliberalism
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Today is a good reminder that during Reconstruction, white southerners penalized freedpersons for being unemployed, unhoused, and destitute—criminalizing access to food, legalizing Black children’s abudction, and restricting Black folks’ freedom of movement— eventually bringing about the 14th Amend.
July 25, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Today is a good reminder that during Reconstruction, white southerners penalized freedpersons for being unemployed, unhoused, and destitute—criminalizing access to food, legalizing Black children’s abudction, and restricting Black folks’ freedom of movement— eventually bringing about the 14th Amend.
Blaming polarization fundamentally mistakes symptom for cause — politics has gotten worse because the right has gone off the deep end, which has in turn increased polarization
We’ve got in the habit, starting in earnest a year ago, of blaming the craziness of populists on political polarization.
But there has not, in any measurable way, been a general polarization to extremes of left and right. Only one side became polarized
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But there has not, in any measurable way, been a general polarization to extremes of left and right. Only one side became polarized
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Opinion: No, politics haven’t become polarized. Only one side has moved to the extremes
Many became attracted to fringe ideas and conspiracy theories on the right, but there hasn’t been a similar shift, of any significant scale, on the left
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July 26, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Blaming polarization fundamentally mistakes symptom for cause — politics has gotten worse because the right has gone off the deep end, which has in turn increased polarization
From our latest episode: “John Maynard Keynes’s Vision for a Future Utopia.” Source: “The golden age.” By John Quiggin. Published by Aeon. #thehistoryonion #historyonion #history #economics #politics #keynes #keynesian #leisure #work #overworked #capitalism #neoliberalism
July 26, 2025 at 3:16 PM
From our latest episode: “John Maynard Keynes’s Vision for a Future Utopia.” Source: “The golden age.” By John Quiggin. Published by Aeon. #thehistoryonion #historyonion #history #economics #politics #keynes #keynesian #leisure #work #overworked #capitalism #neoliberalism