Favorite Rejects 2022-06-19

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

Here are Eli Dourado's ideas for how to increase supply in the economy. Some of these ideas would work, some wouldn't, but it's great to see people brainstorming. city-journal.org/remove-barrier…

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

These political scientists make the case that Democrats should be centrist:

progressivepolicy.orgThe New Politics of Evasion: How Ignoring Swing Voters Could Reopen the Door for Donald Trump and Threaten American Democracy - Progressive…By William A. Galston and Elaine Kamarck Contributing authors for the Progressive Policy Institute FORWARD From Will Marshall, President of the Progressive Policy Institute In September 1989, the brand-new Progressive Policy Institute published The Politics of Evasion: Democrats and the Presidency.…

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

Sierra Club, our secret weapon in the superpower conflict!

non functional tubule @meatspacemaxima

Wait — the legacy environmental groups kneecapped China by inspiring the one child policy? https://t.co/eW6z33jMdl

Errol Louis @errollouis

It’s official

Chris Freiman @cafreiman

Jacobin defending the Berlin Wall

Jeff B. is *BOX OFFICE POISON* @EsotericCD

Imagine the sheer amount of psychic energy it must consume in order to keep one's outrage constantly stoked to such high heat.

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

Who could have predicted that suddenly and flamboyantly crushing China's highest-flying tech companies and publicly humiliating their founders would make young Chinese people less likely to seek a career in the private sector? Who???

Shuli Ren @shuli_ren

President Xi has elevated the status of SOEs and cracked down on private businesses. Now he is getting more than what he had wished for. Most fresh college graduates want a job with the state sector. My latest for ⁦@opinion⁩ https://t.co/CGWSyzJa3p

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

China is speedrunning the 20th century, and now they're up to the "angry unemployed humanities majors" stage of the game. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

2016 was the dumbest year I have ever lived through, and I lived through a pandemic where hundreds of thousands of people died because they were afraid of masks and vaccines