Reading Lounge

1. Framing a Job Guarantee - an excellent rebuttal

The second strategy is more difficult, but will pay bigger dividends, by far, if it can be successfully implemented: Teach the American public how modern, sovereign fiat-money actually works. Because if they learn that, not only does the Job Guarantee program become a logical and viable opportunity, many other public goods and services—which previously no one could imagine how to collect enough tax-dollars to pay for—become viable opportunities as well. Ms. McArdle can call this “socialism”—and consign it, as she does, to the “ash heap of history.” I would call it the modern future of sovereign democracy, assuming sovereign democracy is to have any future at all.

2. Why the Left Should Embrace Brexit

3. Logos That Subtly Reveal the Meaning of Words

4. Royal weddings not anymore what they used to be

5. The redistrubution of sex

6. Roy Cohn was The Original Donald Trump

"In the bipartisan New York political culture that nurtured Cohn and Trump, the statute of limitations for nearly every crime or outrage lasts about 48 hours."

"He got what he’d paid for. He had written his checks knowing that the Clintons could be counted on not to bite the small hand that fed them — at least not until their own self-interest was threatened in 2016."

"Had Cohn not been struck down by AIDS, Trump might have arrived in Washington far faster."