Daniel Schlozman

I think Ezra Klein's take is that America is on the verge of a major step up in terms of sectarian violence, and he is afraid of that, and thinks very major compromises are worth it to avoid that outcome. Admittedly sometimes he says/suggest otherwise, but it's my overall impression.

Barney Frank liked to say that politics was all about working alongside people whom one finds morally repugnant, which seems, if one is going to be clear-eyed and also in the arena, the correct disposition.

Authentic Richard Nixon Agnew Campaign Buttons (Set of 7) - StoneZone These Nixon campaign buttons have been in Roger Stone's personal collection for decades.

Roger Stone is selling sets of Nixon-Agnew buttons (from his "personal collection" lol) that would have trouble commanding $5 on the open market for $45. stonezone.com/product/auth...

For the record, I think it was my colleague and Mair's longtime collaborator Dick Katz, but I remember and appreciate your early enthusiasm for our work.

Hong Kong’s Dim Sum Cart ‘Aunties’ Make Their Final Rounds

Wherever the dateline, "Regulars return once more to beloved local food place before it closes" is reliably the best genre of article. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/w...

I just want to say that it gives me great pleasure to answer questions about political buttons, so please send my way. Already this morning, I've replied to Ryan and, via text, identified a fake in a display on the wall at a prominent civic venue.

Almost certainly a "local" (a non-presidential item), could even be for something like state rep or selectman. You may learn more by seeing if there's any info on the curl, which laypeople would call the rim. Unlikely to have much value, not that you're looking to sell.

That's what I mean--get rid of Jay Jacobs and build a template for something way better.

From the Preface to the Paperback Edition of Hollow Parties (out Oct 22!), whence @samrosenfeld.bsky.social and I explain why we're so grumpy about actual existing parties. Perhaps Jay Jacobs will read it and see the light (haha).

New York Democratic Chairman Won’t Endorse Mamdani for Mayor

If the road to democratic renewal runs through better parties, and the formal Democratic Party is run by Jay Jacobs and his ilk, then we need a massive effort to unfuck the state parties and the "Bermuda triangle" of the DNC www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/n...

The real problem with the Biden-era Democratic Party? They pursued policy goals rather than build the party.

The real problem with the Biden-era Democratic Party?

They pursued policy goals rather than build the party.

@johnsides.bsky.social shares insight from @samrosenfeld.bsky.social & Danny Scholzman: goodauthority.org/news/the-rea...

And here's the paper, still very much a draft. Any thoughts appreciated. It is, as we say, "a form of internal critique of our fellow policy intellectuals, with all of the awkwardness and complexity that comes with it." static1.squarespace.com/static/540f1...

A good time to say, since we're talking about the Biden years, that @samrosenfeld.bsky.social and I wrote a paper for APSA, to be presented Sat. at noon, about why the Biden-era Democrats turned to policy as their salvation, and why it didn't work out. Here's the first paragraph.

“Whether 250 years later, with tyranny again at our door, Boston has still got it.” Right here, right now, at the @wutrain.bsky.social victory party, it still feels like we have a future to build together.

With video like this, Henry George would have won.

The choices that lie beyond neoliberalism Many Renewal readers yearn, I am sure, for a world ‘beyond neoliberalism’. A recent high-profile and intellectually fertile conference, which aimed to manifest precisely that, will no doubt be of inte...

Antitrusters and abundists are sniping about their opponents' unsavory dalliances--Lina Khan posing with Steve Bannon; fash-ish speakers at Abundance DC--but the underlying question of what's beyond the pale are the same for both. See @colmpm.bsky.social from June: renewal.org.uk/blog/the-cho...

A nicely wistful appreciation that captures just what Nadler's brand of liberalism meant, just why now feels like the end of the line.

Bella Abzug to Ted Weiss to Jerry Nadler in that seat is a hell of a run.

To be clear, the Watergate Babies got elected in Nov 1974, months after the Impoundment Control Act passed.

More generally, getting the good of the '70s in laws that restrained the out-of-control executive and not the bad of the '70s in red tape that means we can't build anything is our task now.

Another brave column in Haaretz by my third cousin, Noa Limone. www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025...

Your cause is not the moral equivalent of fighting slavery Against abolitionist cosplay

This is a genuinely edifying exchange between @waleedshahid.bsky.social and @mattyglesias.bsky.social, each extracting fractionally tinged lessons from the Republican Party of its founding generation. t.co/zDDSB4pYmK www.slowboring.com/p/your-cause...

Trump Administration Live Updates: Kilmar Abrego Garcia Is Detained By Immigration Authorities, Lawyer Says

This man is being subjected to a real-life version of Kafka’s “The Trial” as punishment for being the embarrassing object of the regime’s own malicious and chaotic incompetence. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...

The Zcavenger Hunt is the closest thing we've seen to the torchlight parade in 21st-century progressive politics.

YES!!

This is my vague feeling too, that if you're young and want big ideas now, you end up in either the Marxist or the Straussian reading group, with less space for a ~Rawlsian middle ground.

Making politics fun and doing it together, which Democrats regardless of faction haven’t done well.

After all these years, Gøsta Esping-Andersen, Three Worlds of of Welfare Capitalism, is still the best book ever written about the welfare state in rich democracies. With luck, this comprehensive demolition job will win it some new readers.

Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations.

The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.

Gallego on Mamdani: "It's okay to say 'I disagree with this, this, and this, but I agree with that.' But the idea that we're just gonna throw out people that are really bringing in new ideas to the fold, exciting people, just because they're slightly to the right or to the left of us is dumb."

Schlozman Thought

Ooh, thank you!