Here's another (p. 31, discussing the cultural shift of the 1960s):
I'll admit I didn't spend much time in the book anticipating and countering the misinterpretation that I support the old sexual division of labor, but here's one time I did (p. 129):
My 2 cents: one of the reviews summarizes the book I actually wrote, while the other makes up a bunch of stuff about what must really be on my mind.
My 2 cents: one of them summarizes the book I actually wrote, while the other makes up a bunch of stuff about what must really be on my mind.
New at The Permanent Problem: America in cognitive decline
brinklindsey.substack.com/p/americas-i...
New up today at The Permanent Problem: my podcast discussion with Jonathan Rauch about his new book Cross Purposes: Christianity's Broken Bargain with Democracy. brinklindsey.substack.com/p/jonathan-r...
New up at The Permanent Problem: my take on @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social and @dkthomp.bsky.social's new book and how the fledgling abundance movement responds to the “permanent problem.” brinklindsey.substack.com/p/abundance-...
I am confused as to what this sort of revisionism is intended to accomplish.
Quite a lot of people very obviously thought that, man. People have been coming here for a reason.
There's a reason there's a giant statue of Bill Clinton in Kosovo; we didn't put it there.
You'll like the second part of the essay more, or at least hate it less. (FYI I am on this site, so you can link to me whenever you happen to write about me.) brinklindsey.substack.com/p/the-open-s...
New up at The Permanent Problem: Is the “open society” to blame for our cultural dysfunctions? Is Trump 2.0 the answer? (tldr, hell no to both) brinklindsey.substack.com/p/the-open-s...
Yes, this is the way: pick an issue where at least two-thirds of America disagrees with you and act as if they're all contemptibly stupid. That'll work for sure.
New up at The Permanent Problem -- reflections on the failure of the anti-Trump "resistance." brinklindsey.substack.com/p/the-open-s...
My conversation with Musa al-Gharbi on the rise of “symbolic capitalists” is now up on the Niskanen website as well. www.niskanencenter.org/symbolic-cap...
New up at The Permanent Problem after a 6-month book-writing hiatus: a podcast with Musa al-Gharbi, author of We Have Never Been Woke, on the rise of “symbolic capitalists” and “awokenings” past and present. brinklindsey.substack.com/p/musa-al-gh...
A fun, wide-ranging discussion on the Edge City podcast. www.edgecity.live/blog/edge-ci...
My talk at Edge City Lanna in Chiang Mai on the nature of human flourishing. I spent a week in late October hanging out at this month-long “popup village”—what a fun and fascinating experience! www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4Ne...
Great essay by Virginia on on the lost glamour of progress. Very interested in her thoughts on what could make the future seem glamorous again—we need a futurism that responds to people’s present longing for the physically real and authentic human connection. worksinprogress.co/issue/the-wo...
I hardly ever post at Twitter anymore, so I thought I'd try hardly ever posting here as well.
