Osita Nwanevu
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Contributing Editor | The New Republic
Columnist | The Guardian
Author | The Right of the People (2025)
Newsletter | ositanwanevu.com
Columnist | The Guardian
Author | The Right of the People (2025)
Newsletter | ositanwanevu.com
Just needs to be followed up with a warning. "Choose wisely."
“You can be whatever you want to be when you grow up!”, so damaging to so many folks (and we’re all living in the wreckage)
Journalism is not for everybody.
November 22, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Just needs to be followed up with a warning. "Choose wisely."
Like any ideological formation, I think there are a lot of different kinds of people on the left for a lot of different reasons that are difficult to generalize about unless your politics are substantially rooted in personal resentment.
As far as critics are concerned, the typical American leftist is at once:
1) Downwardly mobile and worse off than their parents
2) A trust fund kid so well off from family wealth they will never have to work
3) A successful, gentrifying yuppie who wants to destroy the system that benefits them
1) Downwardly mobile and worse off than their parents
2) A trust fund kid so well off from family wealth they will never have to work
3) A successful, gentrifying yuppie who wants to destroy the system that benefits them
As opposed to existing elites who KNOW it is their birthright🙄
These kind of amoralist insinuations are so funny because:
1) No aspirational egoist in the US would ever be stupid enough to hitch her wagon to socialism.
And
2) If anything self-righteous moralism is the real vice of the left.
These kind of amoralist insinuations are so funny because:
1) No aspirational egoist in the US would ever be stupid enough to hitch her wagon to socialism.
And
2) If anything self-righteous moralism is the real vice of the left.
November 14, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Like any ideological formation, I think there are a lot of different kinds of people on the left for a lot of different reasons that are difficult to generalize about unless your politics are substantially rooted in personal resentment.
Thanks for reading!
November 14, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Thanks for reading!