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- 17 thoughts four years after Covid - by Matthew Yglesias - Slow BoringWay back in 2002, Bill Clinton offered Democrats the advice that “when people feel uncertain, they’d rather have someone strong and wrong than weak and right.”. This has been quoted a lot over the years, but until Covid, I honestly never really understood what he was saying. But I can appreciate now that there was something more appealing about a wrong-but-coherent viewpoint like ...
- Meritocracy is bad - by Matthew Yglesias - Slow BoringAs Slow Boring readers know, we are in fact missing out on some smart kids (mostly ones living in low-income rural communities), but the fact is we are doing pretty good at sorting. And if you talk to people with a curious and open mind, you’ll pretty quickly find out that New York Times reporters are really smart.
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- Honor demands Joe Biden step aside - by Matthew Yglesias - Slow BoringSlow Boring is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Subscribe. What I did give some credence to was that Biden’s age was hurting his ability to perform the role of presidential candidate.
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