Absolutely fascinating piece on (what feels like fairly wide-ranging) neo-puritanism. vox.com/politics/24134…

Worth reading both because it's a good article, and because this is so ideologically idiosyncratic but it lines up with what I hear from a lot of women with very normie political views.

As a mother of a young #teen , I deeply appreciated this nuanced piece on the impact of #socialmedia on #mentalhealth in teens. If only all journalism were this balanced! Tx Vox Eric Levitz

vox.com/24127431/smart…

Why some British feminists want you to have less casual sex vox.com/politics/24134…

Not the biggest fan of Vox but this is a good piece. The trend eerily reminds me of how Rousseau and other Late Enlightenment figures secularized traditionalist morals.

vox.com/politics/24134…

Wrote about the 'feminist' case against birth control, the sexual revolution, and transhumanism (and why it's wrong) vox.com/politics/24134…

John Podhoretz Richard Yeselson The idea that you must 'not give a shit about Jewish kids' in order to oppose the National Guard being sent to Columbia is not tenable because there are Jewish kids at Columbia who oppose that course of action nytimes.com/2024/04/20/nyr…

'Podhoretz’s defining trait is the tension between his desire to be seen as a serious intellectual and his compulsion to say things that reveal he is not one.' nymag.com/intelligencer/…

When you've lost the crank...

One reason Trump is holding up well with more politically disengaged voters is he benefits from the perception among confused people that he has nothing to do with Dobbs.

So the AFL-CIO ✊ and large unions like SEIU and the Teamsters should provide as much financial and logistical help as the UAW needs going forward. This is the Operation Dixie of our moment and the counter assault of reactionary Southern elites (local business, C of C/GOP