American conservatives are taking cues from Hungary’s Viktor Orbán because elite education is a convenient enemy for authoritarian populists. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/08/viktor-orban-illiberalism-ron-desantis-universities/674915/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
Author: Jim
Why the Populist Right Hates Universities
American conservatives are taking cues from Hungary’s Viktor Orbán because elite education is a convenient enemy for authoritarian populists. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/08/viktor-orban-illiberalism-ron-desantis-universities/674915/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
******* What the Best Places in America Have in Common
And what they reveal about alleviating poverty across the country https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/08/poverty-income-index-deep-disadvantage/674878/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
How I ‘bribed’ a justice to take a no-expenses-paid trip to Mississippi. [The Washington Post]
**** The average doctor in the U.S. makes $350,000 a year. Why? [The Washington Post]
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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/04/technology/tsmc-mark-liu.html?smid=em-share
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******** NYTimes.com: What if We’re the Bad Guys Here? rj
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How the modern meritocracy made Trump inevitable.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/02/opinion/trump-meritocracy-educated.html?smid=em-share
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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/02/opinion/trump-election-lies-free-speech.html?smid=em-share
************ NYTimes.com: How Martin Wolf Understands This Global Economic Moment
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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/01/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-martin-wolf.html?smid=em-share