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Ezra Klein’s Core Problem, Wade Lee Hudson — “For several months I’ve regularly listened to the Ezra Klein Show podcast…. Recently I’ve been participating in a lively subreddit, r/ezraklein,… On April 23, I posted the following essay,… it’s received more upvotes than down, and many of the comments have been helpful or informative.”
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The Human Crisis, Albert Camus — “If the features of this crisis are the will to power, terror, the replacement of real man by political and historical man, the reign of abstraction and fatality, and solitude without a future, then these are the features we have to change to resolve this crisis.”
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What Will Our New Normal Feel Like? Hints Are Beginning to Emerge, Max Fisher
”Fear of others may linger long after the pandemic is over. But so may a new sense of community.” -
The America We Need, New York Times Editorial Board
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Are We All in This Together?, Michael J. Sandel. “The pandemic has helpfully scrambled how we value everyone’s economic and social roles.”
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Conservatives Have Been Suppressing the Vote for 150 Years, David W. Blight — “Trump is only the latest to see minority voters as a threat.”
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A Politician Takes a Sledgehammer to His Own Ego, Frank Bruni — “Just in time for Easter, the story of a blind state leader who is giving up his office to join the Jesuits.”
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Lessons in Constructive Solitude from Thoreau, Holland Cotter — “Finally, he used his set-aside time at Walden to clarify his political thinking. For Thoreau, revolution began at home, one person at a time. ‘We must first succeed alone,’ he wrote, ‘that we may enjoy our success together.’”
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Need a Job? Just Call Bernie. Kevin Drum — a critique of Sanders federally guaranteed jobs proposal
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Thomas Piketty Goes Global, Idrees Kahloon — “Now that the celebrity economist’s boldest ideas have been adopted by mainstream politicians, he has an even more provocative vision for transcending capitalism and overcoming our ‘inequality regime.’” Concludes with some of Kahloon’s proposed reforms that “fall short of revolution.”
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We Were Planning an Inequality Project. Then History Lurched, James Bennet
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What is it about Random Selection??, Tom Atlee