1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (113+ words) I wrote about Troy Jackson for the New York Times. My main thought on this is that as Democrats have increasingly become the educated people’s party, they’ve come to really overrate the literary quality of speeches relative to their content....

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (985+ words) Instead, the divergence happened during a time when the center-right has been mostly dominating European politics and when the United States had a significant expansion of its social safety net — especially the health-care part of the social safety net — under…...

5+ mon, 2+ day ago   (41+ words) Slow Boring The girlboss was never a feminist ideal The 2010s turned an eBay hustler into a symbol of corporate feminism she never set out to represent. Keep reading with a 7-day free trial...

5+ mon, 4+ day ago   (790+ words) I have no particular desire to add to the Lindy West Discourse,1 but one thing I’ve noted watching it play out is that the #girlboss is catching a lot of strays. West is a millennial and was a writer for…...