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The Whipsaw Right (opens the original)
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FYI: Gmail sent my last two newsletter to spam for many of you. If you didn’t get last Friday’s digest, check your Spam folder - and mark the email “Not Spam” when you get a chance.Law and order has long been a core tenet of the American right. Yet today it is Republican politicians themselves who are getting rid of a piece of police technology - at the behest of their own base.In late August, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott paused state funding for Flock cameras. About the same time, Florid
When Idealism Costs Your Children (opens the original)
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New York Times writer Nikole Hannah-Jones wrote a powerful essay for the magazine talking about her very public decision a decade ago to send her daughter to a largely black urban neighborhood school in order to help make a difference there. Her original essay on the topic inspired any number of people of various races across the country to do the same.Now, she wonders if she betrayed her own child, who thinks she made the wrong choice in doing so.<blockquot
The American Transition Survey Results (opens the original)
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Thank you to the more than 1,000 of you who completed my reader survey. As promised, I’m sharing the results with you today. The full results are at the bottom of this newsletter, and I’m only going to highlight a few findings of interest here.While reading, keep in mind: this is not a scientific sample or poll.First, you are all a high performing group of people - mostly highly educated, married, etc. So I would expect that most of you have high-functioning lives and live in high-functioning en
America Needs a New Urban Vision (opens the original)
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I have a new longform essay in City Journal magazine on the future of America’s troubled cities. Called “America Needs a New Urban Vision,” it examines one of the underlying factors of America’s urban malaise, namely that the visions of city life that underpinned the previous era of growth have faded, and nothing has replaced them.I note that an urban vision attracts four key elements that power city creation: people, businesses, leadership, and capital. I give an example of what I mean by talki
Better Living Through Technology (opens the original)
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Thanks to those of you who filled out my American Transition reader survey. If you haven’t yet done so, please do. The last day to fill it out is Monday.Take the American Transition SurveyPeter Thiel has gotten a lot of press for his Antichrist lecture series. For those of you in Nashville, he’s going to be doing a version that is open to the public. Former Reagan speechwriter Peter Robinson of the Hoover Institution is moderating. T
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