'Lumpen bourgeoisie + exurban proletariat' indeed seems to be a particularly potent weld in 21st-century settings

Wrote a cover story for The New Statesman on the unsinkable dream of the cognitive aristocracy newstatesman.com/ideas/2023/09/…

writing my latest one on the UAW strike and transcribed part of Shawn Fain's broadcast from yesterday. quite a speech

Neither utopian nor dystopian but a far worse third thing: nytopinian (New York Times Opinion )

I keep mine cold enough 2 hang meat. Truth. All year

Cincinnati places high on list of 'Rattiest Cities' in America: tinyurl.com/r86xz2ky

Economists are so funny b/c they imagine themselves as these high powered intellectuals who understand everything with science and then their takes are like "I'm surprised that econ phds have elite backgrounds" or "I think the true meaning of deleuze is that he's a keynesian"

“The market will regulate itself.” The market:

Uh oh

YES

‘O Captain! My Captain! Our fearful trip is done..’

“All my favorite singers couldn’t sing”

And now I'm lying here I've had too much booze I've been shat on and spat on and raped and abused I know that I am dying and I wish I could beg For some money to take me from the old main drag

This painting by Edwin Van Kuyp (1617-1672) hangs in the National Gallery. It's a psychological study, depicting the howling, serpentine rage of the prosperous when their will is thwarted. It was considered to be a rebuke to Amsterdam's mercantile classes bridling at tax reforms.

"I was operating the elevator when the repairman came aboard. After a lot of small talk he let me in on an industry secret: the 'door close' button is not wired to anything. 'It’s just a pacifier,' he said." thebaffler.com/stories/clip-o…

This is the sort of idea a 1920's yarn magnate would have and call it "Prosperism"

The fact that J. D. Vance and Ron Klain worked together at a venture capital fund is really a perfect detail for our times. The fact that the fund was called Revolution is a bit much, tho. axios.com/local/washingt…

Hillbilly Elegy is so funny, writing a book dripping with empathetic language where you’re ostensibly trying to get to the bottom of why everyone in your hometown including your mom is an unemployed drug addict but arriving at the conclusion “it’s because they’re lazy”

Keep thinking about Liz Franczak referring to the DNC as “the Zone of Pinterest”