polisci and conlaw professors standing round the coffee machine asking what level of functional decline makes congress legally dead for constitutional purposes

that work and see what you get out of it

Macintyre talks about how new things come into the world; I can't rule out that this would be one of them. And abolitionists are pretty much always on the right side of responding to police and prison abuses; their specific proposals in reaction to events are usually good. Basically OK to support

Their proposed policies *are* bad and not as developed as they often claim. Its entirely possible prisons are kind of a necessity. But I have a hard time dismissing: abolition would require such social transformation that it becomes less obscure by making social changes directionally anti-prison

Not a lot of ancient revolutions, I guess, more precisely, but I dont know of many that are solidly medieval either

Feel like noticing an issue with "be an early applicant to this job posted 9 months ago" is a low bar for the people programming linkedin

China has not democratized. I don't know how much to read into that, but a lot of people thinking about the future of democracy work, imo, seem to not be considering that basic backdrop

The report gestures at the future of global democracy work. This is probably too obvious to be worth noting, but China's growing economic and political power have been obvious for decades, and are not likely to suddenly recede, and 25% of the way into the 21st century, the US has autocratized and

Something the US needs to accept too is that without a large-scale correction imposing consequences on a large number of people, the crisis of governance here will continue indefinitely