A few posts back, I ended a rant on Charles Murray (one of two, actually) with a cheap shot at liberals, to wit: “So why doesn’t the white working class vote Democratic? Because liberals don’t care about them.” Let me unpack that, just a bit. Liberals have in fact done a fair amount for the…
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Why work? Why marry?
Over at New York magazine, Jonathan Chait has a nice take on various discussions floating about the blogosphere about 1) why the white working class is so fucked up and 2) why they won’t vote Democratic. The notion that the white working class is fucked up has been pushed earnestly by AEI-style conservatives who seem…
If you work for AEI, you may be a redneck
Or maybe just a racist. Charles “I’m not a racist” Murray is back at it, with a hot new book about how those damn hippies ruined everything back in the Sixties, turning us all into muesli-munching, boutique beer-swilling brats and generally sending the whole damn country straight on the road to perdition. The white folks,…