NYTimes: Producing Something This Stupid Is the Achievement of a Lifetime

Producing Something This Stupid Is the Achievement of a Lifetime www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/opinion/education-smart-thinking-reading-tariffs.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

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Americans Want to Be Rich
Millions of those now alarmed by surging tariffs voted for Donald Trump to return to the White House, @reihan and @CharlesFLehman write. They thought a second Trump presidency would mean fulfilling that most American of desires—the desire to get rich. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/04/trump-tariffs-supporters/682370/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYYMk5rp20seh9HC41lI0yhg&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social
NYTimes: Producing Something This Stupid Is the Achievement of a Lifetime
Producing Something This Stupid Is the Achievement of a Lifetime www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/opinion/education-smart-thinking-reading-tariffs.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
******** The Political Fight of the Century
“Trump has defined his second term by demolition and deprivation. America can instead choose abundance,” @DKThomp writes: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/03/abundance-americas-next-political-order/682069/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYZJoQV4JXE43zL7Kie7z12o&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social
********* What the Comfort Class Doesn’t Get
“In the past eight weeks, life for working-class Americans has deteriorated in real ways. And the pundits and politicians, on all sides, will watch it from a safe, comfortable distance,” Xochitl Gonzalez writes: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/04/class-money-finances/682301/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYcBLofehlwSNNOvuqj3cZTo&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social
Research: What Explains the “Vibecession”?
HBR Business and society Research: What Explains the “Vibecession”? by Eric Belcher and Leo Feler January 30, 2025 https://hbr.org/2025/01/research-what-explains-the-vibecession
********** $$$$$$$$$$I Should Have Seen This Coming
Trumpism has replaced conservatism’s core values with just one: the raw pursuit of power. @nytdavidbrooks on how the conservative movement dies: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/05/trumpism-maga-populism-power-pursuit/682116/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYeDxKseefM40bhX28If37LE&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social “In the long term, Trumpism is doomed. Power without prudence and humility invariably fails. Nations, like people, change not when times are good but in response to pain. At a moment when Trumpism […]
NYTimes: There’s a Method to Trump’s Tariff Madness
There’s a Method to Trump’s Tariff Madness www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/opinion/tariffs-trump-dollar.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
****** NYTimes: Another Group the Democrats Should Stop Taking for Granted
Another Group the Democrats Should Stop Taking for Granted www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/opinion/trump-latino-hispanic-vote.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
******* NYTimes.com: Unmarked Vans. Secret Lists. Public Denunciations. Our Police State Has Arrived.
Unmarked Vans. Secret Lists. Public Denunciations. Our Police State Has Arrived. Those of us who’ve seen secret police in action can’t shake a feeling of dreadful familiarity. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/opinion/trump-ice-immigrants.html?smid=em-share
[The Washington Post] Rethinking the roots and contradictions of Trumpism
Rethinking the roots and contradictions of Trumpism www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/04/04/hayeks-bastards-quinn-slobodian-review/

Americans Want to Be Rich
Millions of those now alarmed by surging tariffs voted for Donald Trump to return to the White House, @reihan and @CharlesFLehman write. They thought a second Trump presidency would mean fulfilling that most American of desires—the desire to get rich. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/04/trump-tariffs-supporters/682370/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYYMk5rp20seh9HC41lI0yhg&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social
NYTimes: Producing Something This Stupid Is the Achievement of a Lifetime
Producing Something This Stupid Is the Achievement of a Lifetime www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/opinion/education-smart-thinking-reading-tariffs.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
******** The Political Fight of the Century
“Trump has defined his second term by demolition and deprivation. America can instead choose abundance,” @DKThomp writes: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/03/abundance-americas-next-political-order/682069/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYZJoQV4JXE43zL7Kie7z12o&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social
********* What the Comfort Class Doesn’t Get
“In the past eight weeks, life for working-class Americans has deteriorated in real ways. And the pundits and politicians, on all sides, will watch it from a safe, comfortable distance,” Xochitl Gonzalez writes: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/04/class-money-finances/682301/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYcBLofehlwSNNOvuqj3cZTo&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social
Research: What Explains the “Vibecession”?
HBR Business and society Research: What Explains the “Vibecession”? by Eric Belcher and Leo Feler January 30, 2025 https://hbr.org/2025/01/research-what-explains-the-vibecession
********** $$$$$$$$$$I Should Have Seen This Coming
Trumpism has replaced conservatism’s core values with just one: the raw pursuit of power. @nytdavidbrooks on how the conservative movement dies: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/05/trumpism-maga-populism-power-pursuit/682116/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYeDxKseefM40bhX28If37LE&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social “In the long term, Trumpism is doomed. Power without prudence and humility invariably fails. Nations, like people, change not when times are good but in response to pain. At a moment when Trumpism […]
NYTimes: There’s a Method to Trump’s Tariff Madness
There’s a Method to Trump’s Tariff Madness www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/opinion/tariffs-trump-dollar.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
****** NYTimes: Another Group the Democrats Should Stop Taking for Granted
Another Group the Democrats Should Stop Taking for Granted www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/opinion/trump-latino-hispanic-vote.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
******* NYTimes.com: Unmarked Vans. Secret Lists. Public Denunciations. Our Police State Has Arrived.
Unmarked Vans. Secret Lists. Public Denunciations. Our Police State Has Arrived. Those of us who’ve seen secret police in action can’t shake a feeling of dreadful familiarity. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/opinion/trump-ice-immigrants.html?smid=em-share
[The Washington Post] Rethinking the roots and contradictions of Trumpism
Rethinking the roots and contradictions of Trumpism www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/04/04/hayeks-bastards-quinn-slobodian-review/