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1. Senior Editor, The New Republic 2. Work found here: 3. Twitter Essayist. 4. Profile drawing by Joe Ollmann

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  1. 5h

    Brooklynites! Here's an event you might like.

    What happened to the public intellectual? in convo with and other amazing panelists, Sept 13
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  2. 6h

    What is dead can never die.

    Ever since it was embraced by the parties, the two-state solution has been called “dead.” And yet the policy lives.
    5 replies . 10 retweets 46 likes
  3. 6h

    Interesting move from Trudeau, appointing novelist David Adams Richards to Senate. It's like making Wendell Berry a federal judge.

    Replying to @JustinTrudeau
    David Adams Richards’ work is a reflection of how passionate he is about NB & the Miramichi River Valley:
    6 replies . 5 retweets 29 likes
  4. 7h

    Very informative thread on the New America/Google story.

    1. My team at Open Markets and I are leaving New America
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  5. 7h

    Over in the UK, young Tories "joke" about exterminating the working class.

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    10. Tangentially, I actually disagree with with Open Market's anti-monopoly focus. But they certainly should be part of policy conversation

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    This is what and I argued here:

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    9. Left needs to figure out how to fund groups like , , etc.

    4 replies . 15 retweets 56 likes
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    8. In the absence of Think Tank infrastructure, Bannon had to rely on clowns like Gorka & Rich Higgins, with predictable results.

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    7. Bannon/Trump had strong policy preferences (protectionism, infrastructure, unilateralism) but no Think Tanks with ready-made policies.

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    6. The Think Tank bottleneck shapes the right as well as the left. Big reason for failure of Bannonite nationalism was TT bottleneck

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    5. And of course this joint is an attempt to work around the dilemma:

    which avoids corporate donors to keep them from vetoing good policy. Pledge $5 here:
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    4. There are of course left wing Think Tanks that can be nurtured (such as )

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    3. The current move to push Democrats to the left will face the Think Tank hurdle: who is going to design anti-corporate policy?

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    2. In USA, Think Tanks have outsized role because in 1990s Congressional staff downsized. So policies often designed by TT, not congress

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    1. The fact that almost all think tanks rely on corporate or foreign government donations is a big problem:

    10 replies . 143 retweets 282 likes
  17. 19h

    "For I was hungry & you said, 'I don't have a permit to feed you.' And I was thirsty and you said, 'Leave me alone. Go somewhere else.'"

    Joel Osteen’s megachurch says it didn’t open its doors to Houston evacuees because the city didn’t ask it to
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  18. 24h

    If only we had listened to Lil B.

    lil b posted this in 2010 🤔
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  19. Aug 29

    Don't be fooled. This is not a funny imaginary bunny rabbit storm. It's a bad hombre storm. We have to build a wall. Mexico will pay for it.

    Trump on : "It sounds like such an innocent name. ... But it's not innocent. It's not innocent."
    15 replies . 38 retweets 152 likes
  20. Aug 29
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    In brief, Jack Kirby > Mark Lilla.

    8 replies . 7 retweets 93 likes

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