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Class Homicide

Joel Kotkin

There’s much talk today about threats to democracy, yet little focus on the social dynamic critical to its survival. In this respect, we may see the current, and troubling, escalation of violent political rhetoric, and even political violence, not so much as the cause of polarization but the result of changing class dynamics, most notably the increasingly perilous state of the yeoman middle class.

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Socialist Investment Advisors

Kenin M. Spivak

The radical left’s domination of education, the media, and big cities has expanded to include corporations and large investment funds. Progressive-minded investment companies, pension funds, and employees are pressuring corporations to implement Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) policies.

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'THE ROUNDTABLE' EPISODE #136

President Palpatine

The Editors

President Biden gave a speech before a blood-red background in front of Liberty Hall late last week, explicitly identifying a large chunk of the GOP as threats to democracy. How large? Biden won’t say—or what he does say, he walks back. Will this message really play with a significant portion of the electorate, or have Biden and his team confused Twitter for real life? Meanwhile, in real life itself, everything seems to be getting worse: school test scores have taken a twenty-year drop in the wake of COVID shutdowns, and life expectancy continues to tick downward as well. Plus: California is raising alarms about potential power grid failures in the midst of a summer heatwave. How can we avoid despair, and what are the opportunities amid all this decline? Our editors discuss.

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