Abundance
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Why ‘Abundance’ Isn’t Enough March 27, 2025
The one bright spot for Democrats these days, it seems, is Bernie Sanders. It is an indication of the party’s sad state that the only figure aligned with it who is able to draw big crowds is a nominal independent long viewed suspiciously by the estab...
What the “Abundance Agenda” Leaves Out March 25, 2025
I spent the last few days digesting Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson and then reading twelve recent pieces commenting on the book, with the goal of getting a handle on this particular area of discourse and trying to determine what exactly t...
Can ‘Abundance Liberalism’ Save the Dems? March 20, 2025
The lessons of the Democratic Party’s painful defeat in November turn on whom you ask. Moderates blame the excesses of wokeness. The party’s Left wing faults a tepid centrism that failed to inspire the base. ...
What’s the Matter with Abundance? March 19, 2025
January of 1992 was a strange time to be thinking optimistically about the future prospects of global communism, but the end of the Soviet experiment prompted Howard University professor (and inveterate red) David Schwartzman to wonder what it would ...
Woke 2.0 March 14, 2025
What is woke, anyway? For the average pundit, it’s the pretension to a superior wisdom or a more fervent dedication in regard to racial and sexual justice. About economic equality and procedural democracy, woke doesn’t have much to say, but about per...
