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I'm a radical firebrand for basic economic literacy

I'm a radical firebrand for basic economic literacy

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Cathy Reisenwitz
Aug 28, 2024
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Inside me, my babies, are, as always, two wolves. 

One wolf wants to burn the fucking system to the ground. This wolf named her first politics blog “the Anarcho-capitalism blog.” (As a baby SEO I vastly overestimated search demand for “anarcho-capitalism.”)

The other wolf prefers pragmatic, evidence-based policy that leads to incremental positive change. She chairs the steering committee for the Center for New Liberalism, which is a center-left grassroots org that self-describes as “radically pragmatic.” 

So I had mixed feelings listening to the latest Behind the Bastards series and this Jared Yates Sexton post. I agree that the moderate, liberal/neoliberal media helped make the Holocaust happen and are still helping to cover for violent populist authoritarian nationalism. 

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