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It's not just that they don't care. It's not practically relevant.

(PDF) The liberal party idea and American ideology PDF | The liberal party idea and American ideology Jacob T. Levy Forthcoming in Joseph Prud’homme, ed., The New Conservatism and its Critics, Rowman &... | Find, read and cite all the research you nee...

Thinking about the NYT mayoral race and its apparent elevation into a proxy national contest between social democracy and Trumpism— and wondering, not for the first time, whether that's what the future of American politics looks like, "strange death of liberal England" style.
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Not great.

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Farthest:

N: Hamburg (53.6°N)
E: Taipei (121.5°E)
S: Arequipa (16.4°S)
W: Victoria, BC (123.3°W)

At a certain point, great wealth and power seems to make people awfully craven and dependent.

Sounds delicious, fresh, and nutritionally dense and diverse. Don't let our weird hang ups about food make you feel guilty. Plus, it's a beautiful meal. Enjoy!

Law and Border - Niskanen Center The rule of law and risk of lawlessness In public law and politics, the core meaning of the rule of law is this: that the executive branch of the government, in control of the violent agencies of stat...

Our conversation builds on an essay that @jacobtlevy.bsky.social wrote for @niskanencenter.bsky.social back in 2018.

Sadly, it's more relevant now than ever.
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Jacob T. Levy on Tensions Between Immigration Control and the Rule of Law On this episode, Nathan Goodman interviews political theorist Jacob Levy about the rule of law and its tensions with mo

I recently spoke with @jacobtlevy.bsky.social about tensions between immigration control and the rule of law.

The rule of law is valuable precisely as a means to constrain state violence. Immigration control undermines those constraints on coercive power.

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Jacob T. Levy on Tensions Between Immigration Control and the Rule of Law On this episode, Nathan Goodman interviews political theorist Jacob Levy about the rule of law and its tensions with mo

New podcast: in conversation with @nathanpgoodman.bsky.social about immigration control and the rule of law.

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Good news

Honoring the Dishonorable Part 1: The Dishonorable Dead - Niskanen Center The temptation to honor dishonorable rulers, corrupts not only our memory of the past but our politics in the present.

I could rewrite and update this every time Republicans resume their nonsense about honoring Confederate history, but the idea makes me tired, so I just repost it.

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love this new york times clip. they recently did a story about how sesame street's set has changed over the years, along with our urban politics.

IG nytimes

YouTube video by No Watermark Clips Krusty Loses the 1984 Olympics - The Simpsons

Poor Krusty.

Cheers to the reporter who just asked Carney whether Canada can really expect the United States to honour any trade agreement.

Carney didn't really answer it -- and given the sensitivities of the current situation, he was probably never going to answer it.

But it's a very good question!

Her supposed connection is just straightforwardly Pizzagate stuff, isn't it?

I mean, I wouldn't put fear of old ladies past this dude, either.

I assume this is a Katie Hopkins freaking out about Yonge Street situation rather than a too many old ladies situation.

This is what the United States gets for coming up with "Canadian bacon".

You can get Sudafed as long as you can have Tylenol. It isn't sold without acetaminophen anymore.

Unless Québec is doing its thing.

Fears that falling birth rates in US could lead to population collapse are based on faulty assumptions While the changes in population structure that accompany low birth rates are real, the impact of these changes has been dramatically overstated.

My coauthors @lesja.bsky.social @karenguzzo.bsky.social & I have a new piece in @theconversation.com , which offers insights into why most demographers do NOT think there is a current fertility crisis and the panic about population decline is unwarranted.
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Having spent almost two decades in and around right-adjacent spaces, it remains astonishing to me how much GOP politics is just projection.

Canada 'disappointed' by Trump boosting tariffs to 35%, says Carney | CBC News Prime Minister Mark Carney released a statement just past midnight on Friday after U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order to increase a tariff on Canadian goods to 35 per cent. He says ...

This is what treatment of a country with an already-existing Trump trade deal looks like. Don't let anyone who thinks "making deals" will solve anything forget it.

The number of people NYT thinks have agency has shrunk again, I see.

25.

A big-eyed brown and white sea bream mascot stands on two legs on a red carpet and smiles in front of a Hard Rock Cafe.

Taiyou, a bright and energetic sea bream fairy, is the mascot of Kamogawa City in Chiba Prefecture.

Mark Carney at a podium, flanked by Canadian flags. Behind him is Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand

Prime Minister Mark Carney announces that Canada will recognize the state of Palestine at the 80th Session of the United Nations General Assembly in September.

Carney says this move comes amid Israeli settlement building in the West Bank and its relentless war on Gaza.

For the breakfast crew:

here’s my argument that the movement for strategic restraint in US foreign policy has become increasingly linked to illiberal or conspiratorial forces and too dismissive of ‘the Blob,’ leading many ‘restrainers’ to put false hopes in Trump.

How The Restraint Movement Lost Its Way The restraint movement's attachment to Trump has compromised its ability to offer a credible alternative to American foreign policy orthodoxy.

“There is little evidence that, as one analyst recently wrote, “under Donald Trump, restraint is winning.” Indeed, one might think that using the words “Trump” and “restraint” in the same sentence is oxymoronic.” www.liberalcurrents.com/how-the-rest...

I'm hosting what's sure to be a pretty great conversation at #LibCon2025 in a couple weeks.

NYC Mass Shooting Was Nearly Impossible to Prevent, Experts Say

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.