Eric Levitz

@EricLevitz

Think out loud for New York Magazine's Intelligencer. eric.levitz@nymag.com

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    4 Dec 2020

    As Uber and WeWork demonstrate, much industrial development in the U.S. isn't shaped by market competition, but by small groups of experts picking winners and losers. The question isn't whether parts of our economy will be planned, but which, and by who.

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    May 14

    71% of R’s under 45 want more government intervention on jobs — even with higher taxes. 74% of R’s over 45 prefer lower taxes. This, via , sounds nuts, but it makes some sense. It’s the Reagan vs Trump experience of conservatism. Can they coexist?

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    May 14

    The most striking statistic about the shootings in NYC this year is that 485 of the 505 shooting victims (96%) have been black or Latino. Just 7 have been white. That's an incredibly stark illustration of just which communities are genuinely affected by gun violence in cities.

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  4. Retweeted
    May 14

    170 people shot over just the last four weeks in New York City, the most over any four-week stretch since 1997.

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    May 13

    Wow. An Amazon dispatcher spoke to ’s about their job surveilling the company’s delivery drivers.

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  6. May 13

    There are more important failings in Weiss's post. But claiming that the "world has gone Corbyn" - paragraphs after celebrating the Gulf States' rapprochement with Israel - is just so dang mindless. Self-parodic the way Twitter dynamics are cast as more salient than geopolitics.

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  7. May 13

    3) But intellectually, it's hard to see how one can simultaneously deride the left for its hostility to Jewish ethno-nationalism *and* for privileging the group-specific rights of the historically marginalized over the ideals of liberal universalism.

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  8. May 13

    2) Zionism turns many liberal-minded Jews into anti-leftists who then vigilantly monitor progressives' hypocrisies and illiberal excesses...

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  9. May 13

    1) There's actually a lot of overlap between stalwart Israel apologist and arch-critics of cancel culture/identity politics in the U.S. (see Tablet's editorial interest in the latter). Which makes sense sociologically...

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  10. May 13

    BW on Israel: Historically oppressed groups have a right to incinerate kids to protect their ethno-states BW on cancel culture: Historically oppressed groups have no right to stigmatize speech or demand their own safe spaces (as these privilege tribalism over universal humanism)

    The mass slaughter of children is one of Zionism’s political responsibilities of power, says
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  11. Retweeted
    May 12

    The US pledged $3 billion toward the Green Climate Fund - meant to fund mitigation efforts around the world - and delivered $2 billion The US annually gives $3.8 billion to the Israeli military and missile program

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  12. Retweeted
    May 12

    We're going to have to take most of our infrastructure off of the internet and put it on closed networks.

    We are doomed as a country if it is this easy to cripple our infrastructure
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    May 12

    “When speaking about returning to the land, you don’t know who’s a Jew and who’s an Arab.”-Mahmoud Darwish

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    May 13

    And here's the piece in Barron's on how so much of the hot CPI was a result of the reopening

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    May 12

    Liberals sometimes think they're sticking it to the GOP by calling red states moochers, but the message they're actually sending is that they don't care to help poor people in states run by their political enemies.

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    May 12

    *looks up actuarial table*

    Do Americans have a favorable or an unfavorable opinion of Vice President Kamala Harris? US adults: 41% favorable / 48% unfavorable Democrats: 74% / 19% Independents: 32% / 57% Republicans: 12% / 84%
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    May 12

    Scott Winship includes this paragraph in his argument against the expanded child benefit going to poor families

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    May 12

    I ~love~ the Multihog.

    It's a wonky sort of appeal, she puts out emails talking about stuff like her love for the Multihog (a compact, electric snowplowing vehicle)
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    May 12

    2022 Brazilian presidential election poll Lula 55% Bolsonaro 32% Datafolha / May 11-12 / n=2071

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    May 12

    12 states so far are turning down federal UI funds in order to drive down wages

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    May 12

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