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Stuck somewhere between the Old Left and the New Left
Home Page: http://robrites.blogspot.com
Diaries published: 240 (8 days since last diary on Mon Sep 19, 2016 at 08:38 AM PDT)
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Near the end of Joseph Henrich’s great new book on human evolution, The Secret of Our Success, I was stopped cold by this:
[L]anguage has at its core a rather serious cooperative dilemma: lying, deception, and exaggeration. Lying with language is...
by RobLewis
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on Mon Sep 19, 2016 at 08:38 AM PDT
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Question: do the media’s movers and shakers secretly hope that Donald Trump will be our next president? How else to explain their obsessive focus on Hillary’s non-scandals—while essentially giving the orange one a pass on his many instances of...
by RobLewis
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on Tue Sep 06, 2016 at 10:04 AM PDT
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I normally ignore NY Times columnist David Brooks, who is such a dependable and predictable shill for the monied elites that he seldom has anything new or interesting to say. But the title of today’s piece, The Coming Political Realignment, caught my...
by RobLewis
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on Fri Jul 01, 2016 at 10:15 AM PDT
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Mainstream economists (looking at you, Paul Krugman) tend to say “It’s possible that extreme inequality hurts the economy, but we can’t really find any evidence that it does.”
Well, here's some. Using “Big Data” research techniques, these...
by RobLewis
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on Sat May 21, 2016 at 09:19 AM PDT
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Things might be a lot different in Congress and the statehouses if Democrats could get more of their voters to show up for off-year elections. But important groups like young people and minorities tend to sit them out, allowing Republicans to carry the...
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on Thu May 12, 2016 at 09:14 AM PDT
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Chris Matthews ended yesterday’s Hardball show with a rant about Hillary Clinton’s lack of any agenda that might inspire voters. “Having the first woman president would be the icing on the cake…but where’s the cake?” he asked. Clinton’s pointed...
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on Tue Apr 05, 2016 at 09:34 PM PDT
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