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The argument in this piece by @maxbsawicky seems to be that, because there are obstacles to the most ethical and logically sound policy, we shouldn’t push for it. I heard

“The voters who elected Trump” is a category that, as a matter of incontrovertible fact, does not include voters who did not vote for Trump. And those with large followings

Economics instruction in the United States consists largely of empirically unsupported political theory masquerading as mathematical fact. I very much appreciate this admission from the economics profession’s defenders that introductory

Suppose we were to accept that upper-level economics courses aren’t nearly as bad as intro courses & that the good ones can help you unlearn the nonsense you learn in

I very much appreciate this admission from the economics profession’s defenders that introductory economics instruction - which is all the vast majority of people encounter - consists largely of lying

Biden is better than Trump, but voting for Biden tells the Democratic Party that, as long as the GOP is more scary, candidates whose policies oppress millions by design are

How can @JoeBiden reconcile this position with his support for in-person voting in Wisconsin two days from now?https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1246790173683339265 Even if you ignore the public health risks, we know for a