Just go ahead and block “Tayler Sheridan” on all their devices for good measure

“Capital is doing this as a coordinated response to climate change” is conspiratorial and silly but it feels like liberals are whistling past the graveyard a bit re: the Capital v. Democracy question.

Nothing more lucrative in our US of A than being a white conservative with a claim to victimhood

unfortunate catch-22 of US policy in much of MENA is that it has helped render far more moderate oppositions to their policy regimen to dust and then act surprised that there's little left except for Islamists

true, but there’s also the time-honored “keep the goddam G-men outta my backyard” impulse at play

Give the man a Tim Robinson level weird leading role and he would absolutely crush it

It’s exhausting how little people seem to know or care about government and the public sphere. And it is the responsibility of anyone who cares about democracy to fight tooth and nail against those systems of ignorance and apathy, those systems that balloon the private sphere and wither the public.

that has fallen into moral bankruptcy. People are taught to “get ahead in life,” to chase careers and family life with no regard for good citizenship. It’s a testament to the efforts of organizers and movement leaders (on the right as well as the left) that there is anything left of public life.

If you are a leftist you believe in systemic causes and systemic solutions. People are ignorant? Educate them. Voters can only fail when they have been failed—by a malformed schooling system, by a network of incentives that rewards proud ignorance over intellectual humility, and by a media system