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I’ve been watching the discourse following Monday’s revelation that Samuel Alito authored a majority opinion that overrules Roe/Casey and declares that the nation’s abortion laws should not be established by the Supreme Court. This discourse has generated a few thoughts that I want to jot down below in a brief post. An Unelected, Anti-Democratic Institution… Continue reading Reactions to the Alito Opinion

In 1994, David Frum laid out the clearest fusionist case for promoting corporate power: If I am bearded, and I notice that my boss and the last four men in my section to win promotion are clean-shaven, I will find myself slowly nudged toward the barbershop. If the owner of the gas station across the… Continue reading Conservatives and Corporate Power

On Saturday, I published a piece in the New York Times arguing that, as states expand child care benefits in the coming years, they should provide benefits both to people who use child care services and to home caregivers. I wrote something similar in my 2019 child benefits paper “Family Fun Pack.” Of course, I… Continue reading Jill Filipovic On Compensating Non-Market Care Work

Joe Biden’s recent budget proposal includes increases to military spending. Many on the left criticized this part of the budget proposal and then Noah Smith criticized them and defended the decision. Smith’s argument for increased military spending is comically bad. First he argues that there isn’t a tradeoff between military spending and other kinds of… Continue reading Military Spending Should Be Cut

Over the last year, I’ve been slowly re-reading notable intellectuals in the socialist canon and recording podcasts about them. My “Socialism Series” currently has 8 episodes spanning from François-Noël Babeuf to Moses Hess. In the podcast so far, I have covered only pre-Marx socialists (Marx is next) and tried to emphasize a few things about… Continue reading Socialism and Industry